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authorChris Chinchilla <chriswhward@gmail.com>2019-01-17 16:15:48 +0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-01-17 16:15:48 +0800
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Merge pull request #5801 from ethereum/idio-contract
[DOCS] Mention that there is no Cron in Ethereum
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@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Contracts in Solidity are similar to classes 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.
+inaccessible. A contract and its functions need to be called for anything to happen.
+There is no "cron" concept in Ethereum to call a function at a particular event automatically.
.. include:: contracts/creating-contracts.rst