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Should we treat "Is it possible to X?" questions as "How do I X?" [duplicate]

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Often an otherwise reasonable question is poorly written as "Is it possible to", when it's clear that they really want to know "How do I". For example, Is there any way to seprate strings to substrings we choose? like: sin(log(10)) begins with "is there any way to..." but then includes the author's attempt to solve the problem.

Because of the wording, someone posted a useless comment

The answer to "Is there a way...?" is usually yes.

In my opinion, it's unfriendly and a waste of time to get so picky about the precise wording, when the intent is perfectly clear. If you really think the wording is a problem, you can edit the question to say what's obviously meant, rather than commenting.

I know the goal is to have well-written questions, but IMHO this doesn't really impact the question quality significantly. The precise form of the question doesn't affect how easy it is to search for it -- these are mostly noise words.

This is probably a duplicate, but when I searched for "Is it possible to", I just got lots of questions asking if it's possible to do various things in SO (i.e. they also asked it this way when they meant "how do I"), not about questions in this form. There are also lots of Q's about yes/no questions, but not specifically this type (e.g. "Is my code good?" or "Is this an example of X?").


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