> but in practice there’s cases where it’s treated more like an unchecked exception in Java, i.e., “I can’t recover from this so _I’m_ going to give up but _you_ can keep going.”
Java has a supertype for unrecoverable problems like out-of-memory-errors. It's called "Error", a subtype from Throwable. Exceptions are also Throwables, but they are NOT errors.
Java has a supertype for unrecoverable problems like out-of-memory-errors. It's called "Error", a subtype from Throwable. Exceptions are also Throwables, but they are NOT errors.