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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

Creating contracts


There are the following two ways of creating and using a contract in Solidity:

  • Using the new keyword
  • Using the address of the already deployed contract

Using the new keyword

The new keyword in Solidity deploys and creates a new contract instance. It initializes the contract instance by deploying the contract, initializing the state variables, running its constructor, setting the nonce value to one, and, eventually, returns the address of the instance to the caller. Deploying a contract involves checking whether the requestor has provided enough gas to complete deployment, generating a new account/address for contract deployment using the requestor's address and nonce value, and passing on any Ether sent along with it.

In the next screenshot, two contracts, HelloWorld and client, are defined. In this scenario, one contract (client) deploys and creates a new instance of another contract (HelloWorld). It does so using the new keyword as shown in the following code snippet:

HelloWorld...
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