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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

Contract constructor

Solidity supports declaring a constructor within a contract. They are optional and the compiler induces a default constructor when none is explicitly defined.

The constructor is executed once while deploying the contract. It is quite different from other programming languages. In other languages, a constructor is executed whenever a new object instance is created. Deployment of the contract also happens using the new keyword and each time it deploys a new contract instance with a new address. In short, constructor code is invoked every time a new contract instance is created using the new keyword, or it is deployed using frameworks such as Truffle/Hardhat.

Constructors should be used to initialize state variables and set up the context. The constructor code is the initial code 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 corresponding...

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