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Solidity Programming Essentials
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Solidity Programming Essentials

by Ritesh Modi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
222 pages
5h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Contract polymorphism

Contract polymorphism refers to using multiple contract instances interchangeably when the contracts are related to each other by way of inheritance. Contract polymorphism helps in invoking derived contract functions using a base contract instance.

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A parent contract contains two functions, SetInteger and GetInteger. A child contract inherits from a parent contract and provides its own implementation of GetInteger. The child contract can be created using the ChildContract variable data type and it can also be created using the parent contract data type. Polymorphism allows the use of any contract in a parent-child relationship with the base type contract ...

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ISBN: 9781788831383