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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.