I strongly agree that runtime exceptions are the right way to go for certain rare events, see for example the new Java 8 addExact and multiplyExact methods whic

I strongly agree that runtime exceptions are the right way to go for certain rare events, see for example the new Java 8 addExact and multiplyExact methods which throw exceptions on overflows. These will not happen often but making them an exception allows implementers of languages with numeric type promotion to remove their own checks, and for the JIT to optimise the entire exception away in most cases.