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Solidity Programming Essentials
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Solidity Programming Essentials

by Ritesh Modi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
222 pages
5h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Solidity Programming Essentials

Error handling

Errors are often inadvertently introduced while writing contracts, so writing robust contracts is a good practice and should be followed. Errors are a fact of life in the programming world and writing error-free contracts is a desired skill. Errors can occur at design time or runtime. Solidity is compiled into bytecode and there are design-level checks for any syntax errors at design time while compiling. Runtime errors, however, are more difficult to catch and generally occur while executing contracts. It is important to test the contract for possible runtime errors, but it is more important to write defensive and robust contracts that take care of both design time and runtime errors.

Examples of runtime errors are out-of-gas ...

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