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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

Inheritance


Inheritance is one of the pillars of object orientation and Solidity supports inheritance between smart contracts. Inheritance is the process of defining multiple contracts that are related to each other through parent-child relationships. The contract that is inherited is called the parent contract and the contract that inherits is called the child contract. Similarly, the contract has a parent known as the derived class and the parent contract is known as a base contract. Inheritance is mostly about code-reusability. There is a is-a relationship between base and derived contracts and all public and internal scoped functions and state variables are available to derived contracts. In fact, Solidity compiler copies the base contract bytecode into derived contract bytecode. The is keyword is used to inherit the base contract in the derived contract.

It is one of the most important concepts that should be mastered by every Solidity developer because of the way contracts are versioned...

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