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| author | chriseth <chris@ethereum.org> | 2017-06-14 01:08:13 +0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-06-14 01:08:13 +0800 |
| commit | d47fcbb6120b45b802350c7f7d083bd0e1ac301b (patch) | |
| tree | 9dbcce910eea462e59471f751d3f629f2f5301a0 | |
| parent | 6b052249dac2bce9d3a87f21cbde3a6429428fc0 (diff) | |
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Clarify statement about receiving ether
Fixes #2377
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diff --git a/docs/contracts.rst b/docs/contracts.rst index a1192d4e..01913654 100644 --- a/docs/contracts.rst +++ b/docs/contracts.rst @@ -509,7 +509,8 @@ In particular, the following operations will consume more gas than the stipend p Please ensure you test your fallback function thoroughly to ensure the execution cost is less than 2300 gas before deploying a contract. .. warning:: - Contracts that receive Ether but do not define a fallback function + Contracts that receive Ether directly (without a function call, i.e. using ``send`` or ``transfer``) + but do not define a fallback function throw an exception, sending back the Ether (this was different before Solidity v0.4.0). So if you want your contract to receive Ether, you have to implement a fallback function. |