[zmmmmm]

I think that's a symptom of the fact that the distinction is really artificial at the language level anyway. Whether something is expected or not is a function of the requirements. Even OutOfMemory can be expected and handled in certain types of applications (esp. since it gets thrown for things like file handles rather than true memory). And then there are all kinds of cases where routine exceptions like file not found are in fact, unexpected errors (as discussed in TFA).

Perhaps some sort of language level solution could have been found (eg: have explicit interfaces to mark exceptions as expected or unexpected and then exceptions are assigned that using generics or something), but that ship has sailed long ago.

[rowls66]

This is right, therefore, in most cases, a library should throw a checked exception, and the caller should decide whether it is an expected error and either handle it or rethrow it, or it is unexpected and rethrow a RuntimeException.