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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.