END WHEN

Syntax

END WHEN

Location

QL ROM (post JM)

This marks the end of the SuperBASIC structures: WHEN ERRor and WHEN condition … END WHEN, and has no meaning on its own. When the program is first run, the interpreter marks the start of this structure and then (unless it is an in-line structure) looks for the end of the block marked with END WHEN.

This means that if this statement is missing, except under SMS, the interpreter will carry on searching through the program and may just stop without an error if END WHEN does not appear anywhere in the program.

NOTE

END WHEN need not appear in a single line WHEN or WHEN ERRor statement, eg:

100 WHEN a>4:PRINT 'a>4'.

SMS NOTES

Checks are made on a program before it is run, and so if an END WHEN statement is missing, this will be reported as an error.

SMS’s improved interpreter will also report the error ‘Misplaced END WHEN’ if END WHEN does not mark the end of a WHEN ERROR definition block.

CROSS-REFERENCE

Please see WHEN ERRor and WHEN condition. Other SuperBASIC structures are DEFine PROCedure, DEFine FuNction, IF, REPeat, SELect and FOR.