jboner/akka — comment on commit 3204269f6a0fb2aec94595f504e2c423d9344b5c
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By patriknw:

I agree to this as the most important reason. It gives us freedom to evolve
the api without breaking user code.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:46 AM, viktorklang <
reply@reply.github.com
> wrote:

> The user shouldn't pollute everything with context everywhere. "self" is
> on Actor, and if you don't use any of the context-things there's no
> additional typing, and if you want to have the full scope, you simply do:
> import context._
> In this way we do not pollute the namespace on Actor by default, we can
> add new methods to Context without accidentally breaking peoples Actors etc.
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Patrik Nordwall
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