Yeah that stuff is annoying. It's not wrong to ask for clarification when the question is lacking context, but there are a lot of cases where people really want

Yeah that stuff is annoying. It's not wrong to ask for clarification when the question is lacking context, but there are a lot of cases where people really want to answer a different question than what was asked. I remember one question about std::bitset using 8 bytes when it could use 1 byte, and answerers basically laughed at being concerned over 7 bytes, like they'd never considered that you might quite reasonably be using millions of them.