Checked Exceptions do not exist on the JVM.

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Neal Gafter wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Additionally, on the point of interfacing with other language in Java,
>> the possibility of having what are in Java checked exceptions thrown by
>> the caller argue for Dynamic call sites to be regarded as being able to
>> throw Exception so that the existing Java semantics and checking can be
>> preserved.
>>     
>
>
> Agreed, though I think you mean that they throw java.lang.Throwable, which
> is the root of the language's exception hierarchy.

No, I mean Exception :-)  Any Java code throw Throwable or 
RuntimeException of course since those are not tracked by a Java 
compiler, but the right semantics for a Dynamic call site come about if 
the compiler treats them as if the method included "throws Exception" in 
its declaration.

-Joe