while: wend

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Thanks james.  You explained it  well enough I belive.  You and SMcNeil made some sense to me.  


"ELI5" attempt:


I was confused by this as well.   WHILE _MOUSEINPUT: WEND looked like a single line of code to me.    The : symbol is used to separate lines of code on the same line. 

An example would be...

FOR t = 1 TO 10 : NEXT t


If you forget that and just think of it as two lines...

WHILE _MOUSEINPUT
WEND


Then you can just consider reply #2.   But that was also confusing to me a while ago.   I wondered how this doesn't just loop infinitely.
But it just goes and checks for the latest mouse input and then exits the loop.