Github user netomi commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/98#issuecomment-113793073
If scala has been designed like that, then developers know what to expect.
Java was designed differently and there is tons of code out there that does a
try {} catch (RuntimeException). If you allow checked exceptions to propagate
as is you violate the java language specification and create potentially more
problems than you are trying to solve.
btw. try {} catch (Throwable) is discouraged in various environments as it
might also catch things that application code should not handle, like
ThreadDead or any other error.
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