Merge pull request #7982 from ethereum/updateVisibility

Update visibility and getters.
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Visibility and Getters
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Since Solidity knows two kinds of function calls (internal
Solidity knows two kinds of function calls: internal
ones that do not create an actual EVM call (also called
a "message call") and external
ones that do), there are four types of visibilities for
ones that do. Because of that, there are four types of visibility for
functions and state variables.
Functions have to be specified as being ``external``,
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via transactions. An external function ``f`` cannot be called
internally (i.e. ``f()`` does not work, but ``this.f()`` works).
External functions are sometimes more efficient when
they receive large arrays of data.
they receive large arrays of data, because the data
is not copied from calldata to memory.
``public``:
Public functions are part of the contract interface