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Solidity Programming Essentials

You're reading from   Solidity Programming Essentials A guide to building smart contracts and tokens using the widely used Solidity language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231181
Length 412 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ritesh Modi Ritesh Modi
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Preface 1. Part 1: The Fundamentals of Solidity and Ethereum
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Blockchain, Ethereum, and Smart Contracts FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing Ethereum and Solidity 4. Chapter 3: Introducing Solidity 5. Chapter 4: Global Variables and Functions 6. Chapter 5: Expressions and Control Structures 7. Part 2: Writing Robust Smart Contracts
8. Chapter 6: Writing Smart Contracts 9. Chapter 7: Solidity Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks 10. Chapter 8: Exceptions, Events, and Logging 11. Chapter 9: Basics of Truffle and Unit Testing 12. Chapter 10: Debugging Contracts 13. Part 3: Advanced Smart Contracts
14. Chapter 11: Assembly Programming 15. Chapter 12: Upgradable Smart Contracts 16. Chapter 13: Writing Secure Contracts 17. Chapter 14: Writing Token Contracts 18. Chapter 15: Solidity Design Patterns 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scopes and blocks

Assembly blocks can, in turn, have nested blocks. A block is a scope, and any variables declared within a scope get deallocated as soon as the execution leaves the block. Each block defines a local scope.

Variables declared within nested blocks are not visible outside of the block. They get deallocated after the block execution completes. The innerValue variable declared within the inner block cannot be used outside the block. It is visible only inside the block in which it is declared. The same goes for the outerValue variable, which is not accessible outside the assembly block but is available for reading inside its nested blocks.

Moreover, variables declared in the parent scope cannot be redefined in the inner scope or block. The outerValue is already declared in the parent scope, and trying to redefine it using the let keyword within an inner block raises a variable name is already taken compile-time error.

Also, variables declared in one scope cannot...

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