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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

Constructors


Solidity supports declaring a constructor within a contract. Constructors are optional in Solidity and the compiler induces a default constructor when no constructor is explicitly defined. The constructor is executed once while deploying the contract. This is quite different from other programming languages. In other programming languages, a constructor is executed whenever a new object instance is created. However, in Solidity, a constructor is executed are deployed on EVM. Constructors should be used for initializing state variables and, generally, writing extensive Solidity code should be avoided. The constructor code is the first set of code that is executed for a contract. There can be at most one constructor in a contract, unlike constructors in other programming languages. Constructors can take parameters and arguments should be supplied while deploying the contract.

A constructor has the same name as that of the contract. Both the names should be the same. A constructor...

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