> But importance of the failure is determined completely by the program, not the library.
Exactly. I think this is the real crux about what's wrong with checked exceptions. It puts the responsibility to decide what exceptions are important on the library, where it doesn't belong. Only the user of the library knows that.
Exactly. I think this is the real crux about what's wrong with checked exceptions. It puts the responsibility to decide what exceptions are important on the library, where it doesn't belong. Only the user of the library knows that.