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Solidity Programming Essentials

You're reading from   Solidity Programming Essentials A beginner's guide to build smart contracts for Ethereum and blockchain

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831383
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ritesh Modi Ritesh Modi
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Preface 1. Introduction to Blockchain, Ethereum, and Smart Contracts FREE CHAPTER 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 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Solidity expressions


An expression refers to a statement (comprising multiple operands and optionally zero or more operators) that results in a single value, object, or function. The operand can be a literal, variable, function invocation, or another expression itself.

An example of an expression is as follows:

Age > 10

In the preceding code, Age is a variable and 10 is an integer literal. Age and 10 are operands and the (>) greater than symbol is the operator. This expression returns a single boolean value (true or false) depending on the value stored in Age.

Expressions can be more complex comprising multiple operands and operators, as follows:

((Age > 10) && (Age < 20) ) || ((Age > 40) && (Age < 50) )

In the preceding code, there are multiple operators in play. The && operator acts as an AND operator between two expressions, which in turn comprises operands and operators. There is also an OR operator represented by the || operator between two complex...

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