Solidity Programming Essentials

Block and transaction global variables

Solidity provides access to a few global variables that are not declared within contracts but are accessible from code within contracts. Contracts cannot access the ledger directly. A ledger is maintained by miners only; however Solidity provides some information about the current transaction and block to contracts so that they can utilize them. Solidity provides both block-as well as transaction-related variables.

The following code illustratesexamples of using global transaction, block, and message variables: