Can Scala actors process multiple messages simultaneously?

Question

The reply to a recent question of mine indicated that an actor processed its messages one at a time. Is this true? I see nothing that explicitly says that (in P

Answer 1

I think that the answer is that an Actor cannot handle messages aynchronously. If you have an Actor which should be listening to messages where these messages can be handled asynchronously, then it could be written like this:

val actor_ = actor {

  loop {
    react {
      case msg =>
        //create a new actor to execute the work. The framework can then 
        //manage the resources effectively
        actor {
          //do work here
        }
      }
    }
  }