===== Atom =====

An //**Atom**// is the fundamental representation of **state** in the Movable Feast Machine, in some ways analogous to an //object// in an object-oriented language.  Each [[components:site]] is occupied by exactly one atom at all times (because even [[components:empty]] is considered a kind of Atom).  An Atom has a [[components:type]] number that links it to the [[components:element]] of which it is an instance.  In addition to its type number, each an Atom possesses a very small amount of mutable storage (on the order of a few dozens of bits perhaps) which may be defined as desired by the [[components:element]] and modified during an [[components:event]].