cl-irc assigns the final argument of an IRC message to the
TRAILING-ARGUMENT slot if it begins with a colon. However, the colon
is purely a syntactic marker that indicates all following text to the
end of the line is part of the final argument. Colons always precede
final arguments containing spaces, but they might also precede
arguments that will never contain spaces (such as channel names) and
might be omitted from a final argument that happens not to have any
spaces.
For example, the following messages are equivalent:
:Joe!bob@example.com JOIN #lisp
:Joe!bob@example.com JOIN :#lisp
And so are these:
:Joe!bob@example.com PRIVMSG #lisp Hello!
:Joe!bob@example.com PRIVMSG #lisp :Hello!
And these:
:Joe!bob@example.com QUIT Leaving
:Joe!bob@example.com QUIT :Leaving
Unfortunately, cl-irc parses each one of them differently.
Would it be possible to change how IRC-MESSAGE objects are created to
put the final argument into the ARGUMENTS slot?
Zach
