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| author | chriseth <c@ethdev.com> | 2015-12-15 00:53:15 +0800 |
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| committer | chriseth <c@ethdev.com> | 2015-12-15 00:53:15 +0800 |
| commit | 98684cca9035c754adcdc99fd196716cb7802efd (patch) | |
| tree | 7110472994e809fb21b27d5d00d15994290df5b3 | |
| parent | e7098958d00dd6e7618c2283168ddfa11ab8ded3 (diff) | |
| parent | 5622011bc557d1dde88ac0dd1456441fef6fb7d8 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #299 from chriseth/documentPrivate
Note about private note being invisible.
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diff --git a/docs/contracts.rst b/docs/contracts.rst index 9ff9f0f5..16809586 100644 --- a/docs/contracts.rst +++ b/docs/contracts.rst @@ -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. |