Actor default state after construction

[HermansG]

When an Actor is created it has a certain State. In de ctor one can define e.g. some Receive's.
Shouldn't this State have a certain name or status?

[Aaronontheweb]

In an UntypedActor, the default behavior is going to be your OnReceive method - the abstract method that has to be filled in. All actor base classes with the notable exception of the FSM<TState> have a fairly loose and unopinionated view of what constitutes a state.

I'd define "actor state" as your actor's:

1. Internal data fields / properties
2. Current message processing behavior

[HermansG]

I was only thinking about ReceiveActor's.
After the ctor you will have 1 & 2 it is as if the actor implicitly executed Become(DefaultState)
Probably a personal preference or a didactical preference

[Aaronontheweb]

For ReceiveActors I usually create a method that has all of my "default" receives in it and just call that from the CTOR - that makes it a little more natural to do behavior-switching that way