Enforces visibility specifier and updates docs.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/docs/contracts.rst b/docs/contracts.rst
index 033e9a45..51d7923d 100644
--- a/docs/contracts.rst
+++ b/docs/contracts.rst
@@ -131,10 +131,9 @@ a "message call") and external
 ones that do), there are four types of visibilities for
 functions and state variables.
 
-Functions can be specified as being ``external``,
-``public``, ``internal`` or ``private``, where the default is
-``public``. For state variables, ``external`` is not possible
-and the default is ``internal``.
+Functions have to be specified as being ``external``,
+``public``, ``internal`` or ``private``.
+For state variables, ``external`` is not possible.
 
 ``external``:
     External functions are part of the contract
@@ -850,10 +849,10 @@ Details are given in the following example.
 
 ::
 
-    pragma solidity ^0.4.22;
+    pragma solidity >0.4.24;
 
     contract owned {
-        constructor() { owner = msg.sender; }
+        constructor() public { owner = msg.sender; }
         address owner;
     }
 
@@ -862,7 +861,7 @@ Details are given in the following example.
     // internal functions and state variables. These cannot be
     // accessed externally via `this`, though.
     contract mortal is owned {
-        function kill() {
+        function kill() public {
             if (msg.sender == owner) selfdestruct(owner);
         }
     }
@@ -884,7 +883,7 @@ Details are given in the following example.
     // also a base class of `mortal`, yet there is only a single
     // instance of `owned` (as for virtual inheritance in C++).
     contract named is owned, mortal {
-        constructor(bytes32 name) {
+        constructor(bytes32 name) public {
             Config config = Config(0xD5f9D8D94886E70b06E474c3fB14Fd43E2f23970);
             NameReg(config.lookup(1)).register(name);
         }