How to compile in earlier versions using new keywords?

[J. Landman Gay]

This is one of the few cases where you have to use "do" .

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On April 9, 2016 8:45:18 AM -hh <hh at livecode.org> wrote:

> Is there a way to *compile* the following script in LC versions before 7?
>
> on mouseUp
>   if char 1 of the version > 6 then
>      put trueword 1 of fld "IN" into fld "OUT"
>   else put word 1 of fld "IN" into fld "OUT"
> end mouseUp
>
> The use of the try structure doesn't help, the script doesn't even
> *compile*. The same with "segment" and other new terms of LC 7/8.
>
> More generaly, is there a way to "hide" some script blocks so that
> the compilation in all earlier versions handles the block as comment?
>
>
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