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Contracts
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Contracts in Solidity what classes are in object oriented languages.
They 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
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
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uint public data;
}
Other contracts can call `c.data()` to retrieve the value of
data in state storage, but are not able to call `f`.
Contracts derived from `c` can call `setData` to alter the
value of `data` (but only in their own state).
Other contracts can call `c.data()` to retrieve the value of data in state
storage, but are not able to call `f`. Contracts derived from `c` can call
`setData` to alter the value of `data` (but only in their own state).
.. index:: ! accessor;function, ! function;accessor