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Your Y is not a different problem, it's just a poorly worded description of X. In an XY-problem situation, X and Y are different problems.
by moralestapia 5y ago
Your Y is not a different problem, it's just a poorly worded description of X.
In an XY-problem situation, X and Y are different problems.
- lwerdna 5y agoThey are different problems. Stripping the final character from "3.14159" does not produce the same result as rounding to 3.1416. The first action concerns a syntactic property of PI's decimal representation while the second action concerns a semantic property of PI's value. A related example given on https://xyproblem.info https://xyproblem.info is a user asking (Y) how to extract the final 3 characters of a filename string when he probably intends to ask (X) how to retrieve a filename's extension.