Re^3: XY Problem

What? Yes it is.

Plus, it's meant to be funny, and I think it is. It's just a play on a famous quote, one variant of which is

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/223634/what-is-meant-by-now-you-have-two-problems
http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
http://www.xkcd.com/1171/

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Re^4: XY Problem by jdporter (Paladin) on Dec 25, 2014 at 05:32 UTC
That's not the same. XY is when you have one problem, but it isn't the one you think you have, or at least isn't the one you're admitting you have.	[reply]
Re^5: XY Problem by wrog (Friar) on Dec 27, 2014 at 10:31 UTC
I certainly won't try to claim all XY problems have this form, but it does seem to account for a lot of them.	[reply]
Re^6: XY Problem by jdporter (Paladin) on Dec 28, 2014 at 16:57 UTC
Yeah.... no. See all my quotes above. None of them describe the situation you're talking about.	[reply]
Re^7: XY Problem by wrog (Friar) on Dec 30, 2014 at 01:38 UTC
Re^8: XY Problem (timeline) by tye (Sage) on Dec 30, 2014 at 08:46 UTC
Re^8: XY Problem by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 06, 2015 at 02:35 UTC
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Re^7: XY Problem by Anonymous Monk on Dec 28, 2014 at 19:08 UTC