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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

Variables hoisting


Hoisting a concept is where variables need not be declared and initialized before using the variable. The variable declaration can happen at any place within a function, even after using it. This is known as variable hoisting. The Solidity compiler extracts all variables declared anywhere within a function and places them at the top or beginning of a function and we all know that declaring a variable in Solidity also initializes them with their respective default values. This ensures that the variables are available throughout the function.

In the following example, firstVar, secondVar, and result are declared towards the end of the function but utilized at the beginning of the function. However, when the compiler generates the bytecode for the contract, it declares all variables as the first set of instructions in a function as shown in the following screenshot:

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