[Ecls-list] Unicode: uncomfortable situation

[Matthew Mondor]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:18:16 +0100
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Matthew Mondor
> <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net>wrote:
> 
> > Meanwhile, if someone has a good understanding on the ECL condition
> > system and wishes to explain how those C functions map to the
> > hierarchical CLOS model, I'd be grateful, it wasn't clear to me when
> > looking at universal_error_handler().
> >
> 
> The CLOS model is pretty trivial: it is just used to implement the
> conditions hierarchy. The problem is that it is not easy to create classes
> from C and for that reason we build a bunch of C functions that use cl_error
> and cl_cerror to signal those conditions. They are just wrappers around
> them.

I can indeed see the error type symbol in the cl_[c]error() calls, that
clears up things a lot, thanks!  The remaining unclear part to me is
FEerror() which seems to invoke universal_error_handler() and from
there I get lost as to how the condition object is created.
-- 
Matt