[viraptor]

re 1. "create a new anonymous class with one instance and run this when initialising and by the way it's all in one line" is hardly "literal syntax".

re 7. They're ok as long as they're helpful, but at the same time they prevent writing something like useful `map()`, unless it throws everything. How many times do you need to catch something and handle, even though the situation can never happen? (as in - code doesn't throw the exception, but interface says otherwise) How many broken functions, like throwing `sleep()` are there? How many times do you have to write catch / finally / catch / finally / ... when closing more than one resource reliably? And it still doesn't protect you from silly null mistakes. I believe that properly using Option and matching will prevent more errors than checked exceptions ever did... (I may be wrong of course)