On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote:

> In what context?
>
> When opening a named file, it should be normal control flow to discover the
> name isn't valid.
> When performing subsequent operations on an already-opened handle, it's
> truly exceptional if the thing has since gone missing,
>

Exactly, so it's exceptional and recoverable, therefore, it should be a
checked exception.

Surely, you don't want the user to open a file, manipulate it, then the file
disappears from under them and you never tell them about it...

-- 
Cédric

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