5.2 Atoms

The module Atom contains procedures operating on atoms.

IsAtom

{Atom.is +X ?B}

tests whether X is atom.

AtomToString

{Atom.toString +A ?S}

binds S to the string (list of characters) representing atom A according to ISO 8859-1. See also String.toAtom.

For example,

{AtomToString 'abc'}

yields as output [97 98 99].