Ethereum Smart Contract Development

Class properties of a contract

Solidity is often called a contract-oriented language, as every operation that can occur on the blockchain must reside inside the scope of a contract. A contract serves as a template definition for the functions and variables, very similar to the definition inside a class for an object-oriented language. Like a class, contracts can inherit from other contracts.

A contract can contain declarations ranging from functions and function modifiers, state variables, events, enum, and struct types. Figure 6.4 summarizes these declarations in a tabular representation.

For further details and nuances, solidity has a freely available public documentation site. The document is generated using the sphinx package of the Python ...