Is it bad practice to send an actor a message from something which is not an actor?

Question

Suppose I have some class which has a property actor_ of type Actor. Is there a problem with me doing

def someMethod() = {
  actor_         


        

Answer 1

I don't see a problem with doing that. If it makes sense in your code, then why not? If you look at the pure actor model everything is an actor and only actors are communicatinng with each other, if you can design your code like this..great..if you can't or don't want to then it's ok to send messages from non-actors to actors.