Actors in Scala by Philipp Haller, Frank Sommers

Actors in Scala



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To be as complete as I can be in this section I should also note that Scala treats everything as an object, even though it has these two types of actors. They both provide sequential execution of events. Actors in Scala are just objects. Message passing is the basis for all communication. But I promised to talk about scala.util.DynamicVariable in the blog post's title, didn't I? Scala Actors and Jetlang Fibers are very similar in practical usage. It is not the only concurrancy construct in Scala but it is one of the most recognized. I've been experimenting with traits, multiple inheritance (mixins), and Actors in Scala and I've found it difficult to merge all 3 aspects of the language. The support for Actors is one of the features that attracts many new developers to Scala. An actor is essentially an active object.

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