Should class IOException in Java have been an unchecked RuntimeException?

Question

Do you agree that the designers of Java class java.io.IOException should have made it an unchecked run-time exception derived from java.lang.RuntimeException<

Answer 1

Probably the vast majority of IO exceptions are recoverable - permissions errors, lack of space on the drive, connection closed, etc, etc. I believe unchecked exceptions are supposed to be used for "there's no reasonable way to recover from this" sorts of situations.