[IRCServices Coding] More bugs and suggestions for Version 5.0

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Fri Feb 15 23:53:44 PST 2002


>> I see your point, and yes, an ID alias would be nice, but my personal
>> feeling is that aliases are not a good thing (tm) :). If you 
>> really want the
>> ID alias - make a wrapper for the IDENTIFY function.
>
>As I said in my post, I already have my own version of ID in each version 
>of services we use. I agree that aliases in general are not a good thing as 
>I said previously, I just thought this one was something that might be 
>useful to have in the main distribution. After all, there is already 
>SIDENTIFY which is, to all intents and purposes, an alias for IDENTIFY.

     The only reason it's there is because some ircd (Bahamut?) has it
hard-coded in.  If you want something shorter, write an alias in your client.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/