Return a string representation of the channel's current state.
if the channel is empty (never updated yet), or doesn't support checkpoints.
Return a new identical channel, optionally initialized from a checkpoint. Can be thought of as a "restoration" from a checkpoint which is a "snapshot" of the channel's state.
Optional
checkpoint: CheckpointTypeUpdate the channel's value with the given sequence of updates. The order of the updates in the sequence is arbitrary.
if the sequence of updates is invalid.
The name of the channel.