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author | chriseth <chris@ethereum.org> | 2018-12-03 22:48:03 +0800 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-12-03 22:48:03 +0800 |
commit | c8a2cb62832afb2dc09ccee6fd42c1516dfdb981 (patch) | |
tree | 7977e9dcbbc215088c05b847f849871ef5d4ae66 /docs/units-and-global-variables.rst | |
parent | 1d4f565a64988a3400847d2655ca24f73f234bc6 (diff) | |
parent | 590be1d84cea9850ce69b68be3dc5294b39041e5 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #5571 from ethereum/develop
Version 0.5.1
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diff --git a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst index 7f62e71e..336aaf77 100644 --- a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst +++ b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst @@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ library has to be updated by an external oracle. .. note:: The suffix ``years`` has been removed in version 0.5.0 due to the reasons above. -These suffixes cannot be applied to variables. If you want to -interpret some input variable in e.g. days, you can do it in the following way:: +These suffixes cannot be applied to variables. For example, if you want to +interpret a function parameter in days, you can in the following way:: function f(uint start, uint daysAfter) public { if (now >= start + daysAfter * 1 days) { @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ ABI Encoding and Decoding Functions These encoding functions can be used to craft data for external function calls without actually calling an external function. Furthermore, ``keccak256(abi.encodePacked(a, b))`` is a way to compute the hash of structured data (although be aware that it is possible to - craft a "hash collision" using different inputs types). + craft a "hash collision" using different function parameter types). See the documentation about the :ref:`ABI <ABI>` and the :ref:`tightly packed encoding <abi_packed_mode>` for details about the encoding. @@ -240,4 +240,3 @@ Furthermore, all functions of the current contract are callable directly includi .. note:: Prior to version 0.5.0, there was a function called ``suicide`` with the same semantics as ``selfdestruct``. - |