The set of exceptions that can be handled is vanishingly small. With exceptions you should be catching exceptions very infrequently and in key places. Talking

The set of exceptions that can be handled is vanishingly small. With exceptions you should be catching exceptions very infrequently and in key places. Talking about accidentally forgetting to handle an exception at a method-call site completely missed the point. That's not how one should code or think about coding when using exceptions.