Mutable messages for Actors?

[John Antypas]

This is likely a very dumb question, but, everyone has been very helpful on the dynamic loading piece, and before I come up with a very dumb answer.....

If I have a series of actors, some of which could be remote, and I want to pass them a message such as the following

class MyMessage (

       var lastIndex : Integer = 0

        ,,,,

)

Am I correct that this is an issue?   The message is mutable, is there a case where a message could be in a "synchronization crisis"?   I can't imagine, if I'm passing this around, that two actors could be working on this message, but given it's mutable, it could happen.   This is the wrong way to do things I suppose.

[Jonas Bonér]

There are no dumb questions on this ML.
If you just do a safe handoff i.e. let go of and never touch the
message after you have sent it off, then you are fine.
But it is as you say not recommended practice, far from it.
It is only you that can screw things up, Akka will not tamper with
your message in any way.

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