Using the wildcard Object type of '*' fails to parse

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This line of ActionScript:
public function get(key : *) : LoadingItem{

Causes this error:
/Users/doucettec/.nvm/versions/node/v6.9.4/lib/node_modules/as3-to-typescript/lib/parser.js:480
throw new Error('unexpected token : ' + this.tok.text + '(' + pos.line + ',' + pos.col + ')' + ' in file ' + this.fileName + 'expected: ' + text);
^

Error: unexpected token : key(1177,28) in file BulkLoader.asexpected: (

According to this page, the wildcard Object type of '*' is ok:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7f88.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7fda