> Checked exceptions don't work very well with generic higher order functions Can you elaborate? The only problem I can see is if the language forces the exce

> Checked exceptions don't work very well with generic higher order functions Can you elaborate? The only problem I can see is if the language forces the exception to be handled by the caller. That doesn't have to be the case: the language could require that the exception be handled somewhere in the call stack, which would fix this problem.