Module atom 

Atoms: names that repeat across messages (core:open, a live record’s state) kept once a process and sent in frames as their number. An Atom is a u32: copied, compared and packed as one; its text is the table’s, alive as long as the process. A frame carries the number, every other form (text, the tagged binary form, files) the text — the numbers mean nothing outside the process.

The table is the host’s: a plugin’s copy of this crate (another dynamic library) is pointed at it (install) so every plugin and the host agree on the numbers. Without one (tools, tests) the crate keeps its own.

use substrate_data::Atom;

let open = Atom::new("core:open");
assert_eq!(open, Atom::new("core:open"));
assert_eq!(open.as_str(), "core:open");

Modules

local

The table a process keeps itself: the runtime’s, or a tool’s.

Structs

Atom

A name kept once a process; see the module.

Table

The table’s two functions: a name’s number (made the first time), and a number’s name (None: no such atom).

Functions

install

Points this copy of the crate at the process’s table (the runtime’s); before any atom is made. False if it has one already.