Currently, Freenode is under heavy attack, with a lot of channels
using restricted mode. As such, it's especially important to be
connected to nickserv at startup.
It's possible to ask automatic nickserv login if we set a server
password following the "nickname:password" format.
A difficulty is nickserv passwords is stored in database, and
need the registry command to query it. That requires to
reorder options a little bit, and so it introduces a little
less readable configuration, as TCL scripts and settings are
both split in two.
Reference: https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration#logging-in