AppleScript Editor, write message to the "Result" window

Question

I am using the Mac OS X Apple Script Editor and (while debugging) instead of writing a lot of display dialog statements, I'd like to write the results of some calculation in the window below, called "Result" (I have the German UI here, so the translation is a guess). So is there a write/print statement that I can use for putting messages in the "standard out" window? I am not asking to put the messages in a logfile on the file system, it is purely temporary.

Answer 1

You can use the log command, which puts messages into the "Event" pane of the three panes at the bottom of the window ("Events", "Replies", "|", "Result").

e.g.

log "foo"

will put

(*foo*)

in the Events pane.

Answer 2

log seems to do the trick, but I wonder why I couldn't find it in the help.