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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

by Jitendra Chittoda
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2 

  1. Both of these functions are available with the address data type. The transfer call fails even when an internal function call throws an error; however, the send function returns the bool type as false in the event of a failure.
  2. If you use the send function in your contract, then you would need to explicitly check for the returned bool type, which could be missed, which would lead to a higher chance of getting it wrong. Even if there is no more gas left during the send call and an out-of-gas exception is thrown, it will return false as a result. For these reasons, it is recommended that you use transfer rather than the send function.
  3. It is not recommended that you use the delegatecall function. This functions use low-level calls. ...
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