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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

Visibility scope

As we know, contracts comprise functions and state variables. So, when we declare functions and state variables, the next question that arises is who can access them. Visibility scope helps in determining who can view and access them. Solidity provides four levels of visibility modifiers. They vary in their usage and determine the level of visibility to their callers:

  • Private: This is the most limited and constrained visibility modifier available in Solidity. Private means private to a contract. So, if a function is defined and marked as private within a contract, this function is only visible within the contract and it is not callable or visible from outside the contract, including child contracts.
  • Internal: This is built on top of private scoping rules, and internal functions are visible within a contract and not from outside. However, it adds another rule that states that functions within any contract inheriting it can also call and have visibility...
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