Companion

Answer the message bundle associated with this atom. If the atom does not yet have a message bundle associated with it, create one for that purpose and install it. The creation of the bundle is atomic, ensuring multiple fibers attempting to create the atom's bundle will agree about which bundle was created and installed in the atom.

Look up a property of this atom. Normal atoms have properties that can be set and read in this way, but specifically not enumerated by Avail code. You can see anything that you know how to look for, but everything else is thereby encapsulated.

Set the specified property of this atom to the specified value. Normal atoms have properties that can be set and read in this way, but specifically not enumerated by Avail code. You can see anything that you know how to look for, but everything else is thereby encapsulated.

Answer the descriptive string that was supplied when this atom was created. The string didn't have to be unique within the issuingModule, but certain operations might only work if it happens to be.

Answer the message bundle associated with this atom. If the atom does not yet have a message bundle associated with it, answer nil.

Extract a Java boolean from this atom. The atom must be either the trueObject or the falseObject.

Answer whether this atom is specially known to the Avail virtual machine.

Answer the module within which this atom was created.