Adventures in SonicPi! getting started: common issues and questions from newcomers

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Hello lovely human and wise coders :slightly_smiling_face:

In week one learning / testing, with plans to share all my progress and ideas, however weird and wonderful they may be!

First question: it appears the log command is supported, but doesn’t output to the log panel (despite what bing-gpt claims:)

Is this outputting anywhere and how to access?
(Not sure if it’s writing to a file, or if a file can be set as logging option, or if log should simply be ignored as n/a and use print and puts

log 'hello'

Many thanks

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:information_source: alias methods

Mainly as a proof-of-concept, but also after noticing repetition and keystrokes with comment and uncomment do blocks.

I saw use of the p alias to print with ruby, so defined this first

define :p  do |n| print n end

usage: p 'test'

I then made aliases for comment and uncomment

comment / uncomment

define :c do |code|
  comment do
    run_code(code)
  end
end

define :u do |code|
  uncomment do
    run_code(code)
  end
end

usage: c "puts 'hey'" to comment, u "puts 'hey'" to uncomment

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Hi there,

log is an internal method and not part of the documented API so it should be ignored. As you mentioned prefer puts and print instead :slight_smile:

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adopting shorthand notation

def u(code)
  uncomment do
    run_code code
  end
end

same usage: u "puts 'hey'"