Share variables between live loops

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Hi,
I’m doing my first experiments with Sonic Pi, so fun!
I’m trying to write two live loops, each plays a random note in a chord (say, x and y). I want to make sure the two loops don’t “collide” (for example abs(x-y) should not be less or equal to 1). How to share information between the two loops?

I suppose I could generate before a long array of random pairs of numbers that satisfy my requirement but I was wondering if there is another way in general to share info between loops.

Thanks
Patrick

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HI Patrick
I’m sure you’ll find Sonic Pi a lot of fun!
To share data between live loops you can use the set and get methods

eg

x = :c4
set :storedx,x

In the second loop you can have

x=get(:storedx)

to read the value set in the first loop.
The symbol name given to store the value is not important as long as it is unique. e.g. you could use :x here instead of :storedx

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Thanks @robin.newman