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Docs incorrectly state that SupervisorStrategy can't be changed

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#20,755 opened on Jun 8, 2016

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In the chapter about Fault Tolerance: "... each actor is the supervisor of its children, and as such each actor defines fault handling supervisor strategy. This strategy cannot be changed afterwards ..."

Looking at the ultimate source of truth – the code – I strongly doubt this is correct: Actor.supervisorStrategy is a method and from what I could see it is used "directly" (as opposed to receive).

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Check the Actor.supervisorStrategy method in the source code to confirm it can be changed, then update the documentation to reflect that.
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