Re: "first form an hypothesis..."

[Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>]

Me too. Something often happens in the morning after I think about a
problem intensively before going to sleep.

Leigh Palmer wrote:

> > My favorite "method" is to beat my head against a problem far into the
> > night with no progress in sight, then to finally doze off.  Suddenly at
> > about 3AM the full-blown solution appears, interrupting a dream and
> > causing me to wake up in shock and write it down before it vanishes from
> > my mind (which it will if I don't write it down.)
>
> Exactly my method, Bill! It's also the best way to find a really
> obscure bug in your code.
>
> Leigh