Availability:built-in
[ISO]atom_chars(?Atom, 
?CharList)As atom_codes/2, 
but CharList is a list of one-character atoms rather than a 
list of character codes.99Up to 
version 3.2.x, atom_chars/2 
behaved as the current atom_codes/2. 
The current definition is compliant with the ISO standard.
?- atom_chars(hello, X).
X = [h, e, l, l, o]