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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 global variables


Every address—externally owned or contract-based, has five global functions and a single global variable. These functions and variables will be explored in depth in subsequent chapters on Solidify functions. The global variable related to the address is called balance and it provides the current balance of Ether in wei available at the address.

The functions are as follows:

  • <address>.transfer(uint256 amount): This function sends the given amount of wei to address, throws on failure
  • <address>.send(uint256 amount) returns (bool): This function sends the given amount of wei to address, and returns false on failure
  • <address>.call(...) returns (bool): This function issues a low-level call, and returns false on failure
  • <address>.callcode(...) returns (bool): This function issues a low-level callcode, and returns false on failure
  • <address>.delegatecall(...) returns (bool): This function issues a low-level delegatecall, and returns false on failure...
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