Re: Parsing a language with optional spaces

[uxio prego]

Hi, there's this there

> On 9 Jul 2020, at 06:51, Akim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Le 8 juil. 2020 à 22:14, Akim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr> a écrit :
>> 
>> That reminds me of a paper I read long ago, someone proposing
>> "heisentokens": having the scanner return multiple tokens concurrently,
>> for the different scanning options, branched into GLR to follow the
>> various options and let dead ends die (that would be a second time?).
> 
> I couldn't find references to that for a good reason: it was referring
> to Schrödinger, not Heisenberg.
> 
> https://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~nigelh/Publications/Schrodinger.pdf

In computer programming jargon, a heisenbug is a software bug that seems
to [...] The term is a pun on the name of Werner Heisenberg, [...].
Similar terms, such as bohrbug, [...], and schrödinbug [...] have been
occasionally proposed [...] however, unlike the term heisenbug, they are
not widely known or used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug