There were ways to do this previously but it will be great to have this as part of "official" Java. I have got good results in the past from adding a REPL inte

There were ways to do this previously but it will be great to have this as part of "official" Java. I have got good results in the past from adding a REPL interface to long-running servers. Requiring functions to declare their exceptions in the REPL seems like an odd decision though (particularly given that the shell will automatically catch exceptions). I wonder why they didn't just assume "throws Exception" or even the actual thrown Exception, given that they are able to infer it and these functions won't be overridden.