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Solidity Programming Essentials

You're reading from  Solidity Programming Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831383
Pages 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction to Blockchain, Ethereum, and Smart Contracts 2. Installing Ethereum and Solidity 3. Introducing Solidity 4. Global Variables and Functions 5. Expressions and Control Structures 6. Writing Smart Contracts 7. Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks 8. Exceptions, Events, and Logging 9. Truffle Basics and Unit Testing 10. Debugging Contracts 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Address


An address is a 20 bytes data type. It is specifically designed to hold account addresses in Ethereum, which are 160 bits or 20 bytes in size. It can hold contract account addresses as well as externally owned account addresses. Address is a value type and it creates a new copy while being assigned to another variable.

Address has a balance property that returns the amount of Ether available with the account and has a few functions for transferring Ether to accounts and invoking contract functions.

It provides the following two functions to transfer Ether:

  • transfer 
  • send

The transfer function is a better alternative for transferring Ether to an account than the send function. The send function returns a boolean value depending on successful execution of the Ether transfer while the transfer function raises an exception and returns the Ether to the caller.

It also provides the following three functions for invoking the contract function:

  • Call
  • DelegateCall 
  • Callcode
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