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#15654 point out explicit actor lifecycle

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Roland Kuhn 2016-03-10 09:58:10 +01:00
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@ -293,6 +293,13 @@ be reused again by creating an actor with ``actorOf()``. In this case the
name of the new incarnation will be the same as the previous one but the
UIDs will differ.
.. note::
It is important to note that Actors do not stop automatically when no longer
referenced, every Actor that is created must also explicitly be destroyed.
The only simplification is that stopping a parent Actor will also recursively
stop all the child Actors that this parent has created.
An ``ActorRef`` always represents an incarnation (path and UID) not just a
given path. Therefore if an actor is stopped and a new one with the same
name is created an ``ActorRef`` of the old incarnation will not point