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Re:Underhanded Solidity Coding Contest by ufo on Monday July 03, 2017 @05:53PM (#14691691)
What is the insane name mangling and case sensitivity that you mentioned there?
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Re:Underhanded Solidity Coding Contest by SolarNet on Monday July 03, 2017 @10:52PM (#14693180)
`Transfer` is an event, `transfer` is a function. This [0] is from TheDAO attack and is one of the (many) bugs making the attack so terrible.

As for name mangling, read this [1] and see if it seems sane to you.

For bonus points [2], `this.foo()` and `foo()` mean two wildly different things.

I don't even know what they were thinking.

[0] http://vessenes.com/deconstructing-thedao-attack-a-brief-cod...

[1] http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/abi-spec.html#

[2] https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/issues/583

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