Solidity Programming Essentials

The send method

The send method is used to send Ether to a contract or to an individually owned account. Take a look at the following code depicting the send method:

<<account>>.send(amount);

The send function provides 2,300 gas as a fixed limit, which cannot be superseded. This is especially important when sending an amount to a contract address. To send an amount to an individually owned account, this amount of gas is enough. The send function returns a boolean true/false as a return value. In this case, an exception is not returned; instead, false is returned from the function. If everything goes right in an execution, true is returned from the function. If send is used along with the contract address, it will invoke the fallback function ...