Optional keywords?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 12/23/11 9:21 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
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> Is this well known?
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> on mouseUp
>    put "ABCDE" into foo
>    answer char 2 foo
> end mouseUp
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> This works for all chunk types. But where is the keyword "of" (or
> "in") at line 3? It seems to be optional. Has this always been so?
> Are there other keywords that do not matter?

There are others but I can't remember which they are. I think it's 
probably a case of the engine being so forgiving, and the behavior 
depends on where in the structure the omission occurs. The same is true 
for some unquoted literals which can work at the ends of lines but not 
in the middle.

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