Comment out lines?

Questions and Answers
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Hey,

Just wondering if there is a way of commenting out a line - so I don’t have to retype it.

For example if I wanted to stop and start d1 every now and then using d1 silence

Thanks!

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Just put two hyphens (i.e. – ) at the beginning of the line.

Bryan

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Single line comments in TidalCycles are the same as in Haskell, which is to say, that you prepend the text that you wish to comment out with --

So you would do:

-- d1 $ silence

or

d1 $ s "bd*32" -- a comment here
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Hi @Paul,

If you have a look at the “basic interation” video, I try to explain that it’s not the whole file you’re editing that gets ‘run’ - it’s only the block of text that your cursor is on. You can see the block ‘flash’ when you run it - that’s the only bit that gets sent to tidal.

So while what @bcgreen and @eris says it true, you wouldn’t actually need to comment out d1 silence - it doesn’t have any effect until you send it to tidal.

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Thanks all for your replies - really helpful

@yaxu I’ll take another look a the basic interaction vid -really enjoying everything so far!