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Ethereum Cookbook

You're reading from   Ethereum Cookbook Over 100 recipes covering Ethereum-based tokens, games, wallets, smart contracts, protocols, and Dapps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133998
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manoj P R Manoj P R
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Smart Contract Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Interacting with the Contract 4. The Truffle Suite 5. Tokens and ICOs 6. Games and DAOs 7. Advanced Solidity 8. Smart Contract Security 9. Design Decisions 10. Other Protocols and Applications 11. Miscellaneous 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using visibility modifiers efficiently

Functions and state variables can have visibility modifiers. There are four visibility modifiers in solidity. Functions can be specified as public, private, internal, or external. State variables support all visibility levels except external. In this recipe, you will learn about visibility modifiers and how to use them.

How to do it...

  1. If you want the function to be accessible both externally and internally, it has to be marked as public. Public state variables will generate a getter function automatically:

pragma solidity ^0.4.21;
contract Visibility {
// Public state variables generate an automatic getter
uint public limit = 110021;

// Accessible externally and internally...
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Ethereum Cookbook
Published in: Aug 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789133998
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