From ee17fd8be710591a01214422e7addf0cd7277789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrik Nordwall <patrik.nordwall@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:54:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Changed message type to Any instead of AnyRef in ask method.
 See #1608

---
 akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorRef.scala | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorRef.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorRef.scala
index f1378db41a..254b19e010 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorRef.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorRef.scala
@@ -127,9 +127,9 @@ abstract class ActorRef extends java.lang.Comparable[ActorRef] with Serializable
    * the callback will be scheduled concurrently to the enclosing actor. Unfortunately
    * there is not yet a way to detect these illegal accesses at compile time.
    */
-  def ask(message: AnyRef, timeout: Timeout): Future[AnyRef] = ?(message, timeout).asInstanceOf[Future[AnyRef]]
+  def ask(message: Any, timeout: Timeout): Future[AnyRef] = ?(message, timeout).asInstanceOf[Future[AnyRef]]
 
-  def ask(message: AnyRef, timeoutMillis: Long): Future[AnyRef] = ask(message, new Timeout(timeoutMillis))
+  def ask(message: Any, timeoutMillis: Long): Future[AnyRef] = ask(message, new Timeout(timeoutMillis))
 
   /**
    * Forwards the message and passes the original sender actor as the sender.