OK, this is getting clearer...
I'm curious about the "table" objects such as
#X obj 285 138 table 2-samp;
that appear to float alone on the screen, though they are drawn with an inlet and an outlet. In digging around, I don't see help or documentation on the object, and I don't see what the inlet and outlet are for.
Ideally, I would hope that they could take an input value and create a table on the fly, with something like "table $1-table". I'd also like to see what they send as output, but nothing that I've tried attaching to the output (number, symbol, or print objects)has revealed what it's sending.
I'm also occasionally getting on the console screen "Consistency check failed: tabwrite_tilde_tick". Any idea what this is and if I should worry?