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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

Boolean


Solidity, like any programming language, provides a boolean data type. The bool data type can be used to represent scenarios that have binary results, such as true or false, 1 or 0, and so on. The valid values for this data type are true and false. It is to be noted that bools in Solidity cannot be converted to integers, as they can in other programming languages. It's a value type and any assignment to other boolean variables creates a new copy. The default value for bool in Solidity is false.

A bool data type is declared and assigned a value as shown in the following code:

bool isPaid = true;

It can be modified within contracts and can be used in both incoming and outgoing parameters and the return value, as shown in the following screenshot:

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