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 Contracts
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-Contracts in Solidity are what classes are in object oriented languages. They contain persistent data in state variables and functions that can modify these variables. Calling a function on a different contract (instance) will perform an EVM function call and thus switch the context such that state variables are inaccessible.
+Contracts in Solidity are what classes are in object oriented languages. They
+contain persistent data in state variables and functions that can modify these
+variables. Calling a function on a different contract (instance) will perform
+an EVM function call and thus switch the context such that state variables are
+inaccessible.
 
 .. index:: ! contract;creation