Effectively final

Bob Foster bobfoster at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 10:01:40 PDT 2011


Howard Lovett wrote:
> This thread is called "effectively final"; how are Actors an argument in
favor of capuring mutable state? Since the last thing you want to do with
Actors is pass something mutable as part of the message!

You are stuck on actor messages and miss Tim Fox's point: actors are
inherently serial so there is no harm in using mutable capture _within_ an
actor.

Bob


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