Merge pull request #299 from chriseth/documentPrivate

Note about private note being invisible.
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chriseth 2015-12-14 17:53:15 +01:00
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@ -163,6 +163,13 @@ and the default is `internal`.
visible for the contract they are defined in and not in
derived contracts.
.. note::
Everything that is inside a contract is visible to
all external observers. Making something `private`
only prevents other contract from accessing and modifying
the information, but it will still be visible to the
whole world outside of the blockchain.
The visibility specifier is given after the type for
state variables and between parameter list and
return parameter list for functions.