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authorchriseth <c@ethdev.com>2016-09-05 22:29:08 +0800
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@@ -317,17 +317,12 @@ providing any data or if someone messed up the types so that they tried to
call a function that does not exist.
The default behaviour (if no fallback function is explicitly given) in
-these situations is to just accept the call and do nothing.
-This is desireable in many cases, but should only be used if there is
-a way to pull out Ether from a contract.
+these situations is to throw an exception.
-If the contract is not meant to receive Ether with simple transfers, you
+If the contract is meant to receive Ether with simple transfers, you
should implement the fallback function as
-``function() { throw; }``
-
-this will cause all transactions to this contract that do not call an
-existing function to be reverted, so that all Ether is sent back.
+``function() payable { }``
Another use of the fallback function is to e.g. register that your
contract received ether by using an event.
@@ -488,6 +483,8 @@ What happens if you send ether along with a function call to a contract?
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It gets added to the total balance of the contract, just like when you send ether when creating a contract.
+You can only send ether along to a function that has the ``payable`` modifier,
+otherwise an exception is thrown.
Is it possible to get a tx receipt for a transaction executed contract-to-contract?
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