Debug without any parameter to insert blank line

[Blue]

Just a timesaver:

writing
Debug
is faster than writing
Debug ""
to skip a line...

especially on some keyboards where the Quote character is not located in a convenient place,
and even more so for people who, like me, are unskilled typists !!!

[DoubleDutch]

A nice feature would be some way of NOT printing a CR at the end of a debug message.

Maybe an optional flag?

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Debug("blah",#PB_No_CR)

[PB]

@Blue: Good request, reminds me of PRINT on the Commodore 64.
You can do it in the meantime with a macro:

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Macro Blank
  Debug ""
EndMacro

Debug "1"
Blank
Debug "2"
Blank
Debug "3"

[gekkonier]

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Debugstr.s = ""

Macro DebNL(val)
  Debug val
  Debug ""
EndMacro

Macro DebLF
  Debug ""
EndMacro

Macro Debadd(val)
  Debugstr = Debugstr + val
EndMacro

Macro Debprint
  Debug Debugstr
  Debugstr = ""
EndMacro

  

Debug("huhu")
DebLF
Debug("haha")
Debadd("a")
Debadd("b")
Debadd("c")
Debprint
DebNL("hehe")
Debug("hoho")

Quickly workaround, not good style.

[Blue]

.. reminds me of PRINT on the Commodore 64.
You can do it in the meantime with a macro: [...]

Reminds me of PRINT in GFABasic on my Atari1040 !!! The whole PureBsic envrironment throws me back to my Atari and GFA Basic days. Those were fun times...

Anyway, many thanks for the Macro suggestion, PB and gekkonier ; that's, of course, basiclly how i've been doing it, using only 2-letter abbreviations though: with only one good hand available to work with, I maniacally look for ways to shorten my typing...

[Fangbeast]

Blue, if you don't mind my asking, what happened to your other hand?

I've been thinking a lot about accessibility features in all my programs and only thought of the more obvious one (to me) of poor sight such as I am getting as I get older.

[Joakim Christiansen]

A nice feature would be some way of NOT printing a CR at the end of a debug message.

Maybe an optional flag?

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Debug("blah",#PB_No_CR)

Or have a DebugN and Debug.

I also agree with Blue

[#NULL]

i like the ideas here too. the Debug could have improvements in general.
i.e. auto-casting to allow things like:

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Debug  "result = " + function.l() + " (" + Variable.f + ")"

but probably that would be a little bit more work to implement.