mchartable(3m17n)

✨ NAME ✨

mchartable — bestie it's literally the function that makes you a brand new chartable, that's it, that's the whole name 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

MCharTable* mchartable (MSymbol key, void * default_value)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so. mchartable() is here to create a new chartable. That's the whole assignment, and she ate. 🫶

You hand her a symbol — that's your key — and a default_value, and boom, a fresh new chartable object exists in the world with that key and that default value. main character energy fr.

And now the part you actually need to know, no cap: if key is a managing key, the elements of the table (including the default value) are managed objects or NULL. That's the rule. That's the vibe check. Don't forget it. 🦋

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

So what do you get back? Two possibilities, bestie:

• If the operation was successful, mchartable() returns a pointer to the created chartable. Slay. 👑
• Otherwise it returns NULL, and — not me having to tell you this — it assigns an error code to the external variable merror_code. 😭

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)

Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.

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and that's the whole page bestie, we're done here 💜 this was Version 1.8.4, dated Mon Sep 25 2023, and it's part of the m17n Library docs — mchartable(3m17n) 4ever, iykyk 🎀✨🌸