[Cfp-interest] Undefined behavior vs recommended practice

[Fred J. Tydeman]

I think that the following should be added after many
mentions of undefined behavior:


Recommended Practice

This undefined behavior should be treated as if an #error had been
encountered.

Reason: I think that compilers should detect errors as soon as
possible.  If an error condition can be detected during translation,
then I think translation should fail.  The only way to cause
translation to not be successful is to encounter an #error.



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