Added sender and loop methods to Actor class (p...

Added sender and loop methods to Actor class (previously only in Actor
object).

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/actors/scala/actors/Actor.scala b/src/actors/scala/actors/Actor.scala
index 20db17c0f8..1580960869 100644
--- a/src/actors/scala/actors/Actor.scala
+++ b/src/actors/scala/actors/Actor.scala
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ trait Actor extends OutputChannel[Any] {
     case x => x
   }
 
-  private[actors] def sender: Actor =
+  def sender: Actor =
     if (sessions.isEmpty) null
     else sessions.head.asInstanceOf[Channel[Any]].receiver
 
@@ -607,6 +607,9 @@ trait Actor extends OutputChannel[Any] {
     Scheduler start new Reaction(this)
   }
 
+  def loop(body: => Unit): Nothing =
+    Actor.seq(body, loop(body))
+
   private[actors] var links: List[Actor] = Nil
 
   /**