This is a good example of why the aphorism 'technically right is the best kind of right' is problematical (of course, those who like it will point out that I am

This is a good example of why the aphorism 'technically right is the best kind of right' is problematical (of course, those who like it will point out that I am not technically correct...) Regardless, the fact that someone wrote code that specified undefined behavior and got what they asked for instead of what they wrote is not the whole problem. Unless this outcome is what the standards committee wanted (in which case we have a different problem), then it is very reasonable to ask the question of whether we are making staying within defined behavior unduly difficult through rules that refuse to treat nearly hypothetical circumstances as special cases.