> Further, I'd say that IndexOutOfBoundsException can happen pretty much everywhere, so it does not make much sense to make it a checked exception anyway. Inde

> Further, I'd say that IndexOutOfBoundsException can happen pretty much everywhere, so it does not make much sense to make it a checked exception anyway. Indeed. I don't know of any programming languages in which out-of-bounds array access is an error whose handling is enforced by the type system (checked exception, result, etc). Ditto for numeric overflow and division by zero. I believe even Ada doesn't force error handling of these.