Anomolous is among

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My suggestion:

For safety, include a scope definition when using 'is  among', as in...

if [tStr] is among char|word|item|token n to -m of  [tSrc]
 
e.g. if "penguin" is among word 1 to -1 of "1 2 3 4 "

This copes  with the current engine's potential  interpretation anomolies of 
string  literals.

/H


Brian Yennie  wrote...

>How about this  rule:
>
>Transcript fails when determining if a word is among the  words of a 
>string literal WHEN:
>The string literal ends with  <space> AND, in the case of a chunk 
>expression, includes that last  space.
>
>In any case, it definitely looks like a bug and smells of  some check 
>for end-of-string, next-word, and NULL going wrong in the  engine...


>> Yeah.  But it seems to be a little more involved than  that:
>>
>>   put "planets" is among the words of  char 4 of "1 2 "
>> ==> true
>>
>>   put  "planets" is among the words of char 2 of "1 2 "
>> ==>  false
>>
>> Weird.
>>
>>on  mouseUp
>>   constant x = " "
>>   put  "planets" is among the words of x
>> end  mouseUp
>>
>> ==> true