Given a mutable borrow to an ActorContext -- i.e. you're in
Actor::receive or Actor::receive_context, this allows immediate
stopping or failing of the actor.
This contrasts with ActorRef::stop and ActorRef::fail where they are
enqueued like regular messages.
Basically, from the inside, you can stop yourself (effectively)
immediately, whereas from the outside you don't have control over the
message ordering.
Given a mutable borrow to an
ActorContext-- i.e. you're inActor::receiveorActor::receive_context, this allows immediate stopping or failing of the actor.This contrasts with
ActorRef::stopandActorRef::failwhere they are enqueued like regular messages.Basically, from the inside, you can stop yourself (effectively) immediately, whereas from the outside you don't have control over the message ordering.