do_send behaviour is inconsistent

[uzytkownik]

do_send on Addr is documented as:

Send message unconditionally

This method ignores actor's mailbox capacity, it silently fails if mailbox is closed.

However do_send on Recipient is:

Send message

Deliver message even if recipient's mailbox is full

It seems strange to have 2 similarly named methods with subtly difference in semantics which cannot be easily explained by nature of calls. I had expected that addr.do_send(...) and addr.recipient().do_send(...) are equivalend.

[fafhrd91]

this is mainly ergonomic question. main use case for do_send is send and forget, returning Result<> would need to use it all the time

[uzytkownik]

@fafhrd91 I'm not saying that send and forget is not a valid use-case. It is just strange that it behaves differently across structs.

[fafhrd91]

i may revisit this later