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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

Data types in Solidity

Solidity data types can broadly be classified in the following two types:

  • Value types 
  • Reference types

These two types in Solidity differ based on the way they are assigned to a variable and stored in EVM. Assigning a variable to another variable can be done by creating a new copy or just by coping the reference. Value types maintains independent copies of variables and changing the value in one variable does not effect value in another variable. However, changing values in reference type variables ensures that anybody referring to that variables gets updates value.

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