The Greeter from the solidity-baby-steps tutorials, which is a different contract from the ethereum.org greeter of the same idea.
Historical Significance
The ethereum.org token tutorial is where most people who deployed a token in this period started, and this is its opening form: a balance mapping, a guarded subtraction and the metadata a wallet needs to show a name. It has no allowance, so nothing can spend on a holder's behalf and no exchange or escrow can be given a limit. That gap is exactly what ERC-20 was written to close, and copies like this one are the before picture.
Context
Deployed 12 September 2015, during the Frontier era.
Key Facts
Description
Example 5 of the solidity-baby-steps tutorial series, deployed by the author of the series. It takes a string in the constructor, records the creator alongside it, returns the string from greet, allows the creator to replace it through setGreeting, and lets the creator kill the contract. It is not the ethereum.org greeter: that one splits owner and kill into a separate mortal contract and this one keeps everything in a single Greeter, which is why the two compile to different runtimes despite doing the same thing.
Source Verified
Heuristic Analysis
The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.
Frontier Era
The initial release of Ethereum. A bare-bones implementation for technical users.
Bytecode Overview
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Source verified through compiler archaeology and exact bytecode matching.
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// Submitted by EthereumHistory (ethereumhistory.com)
/*
The following is an extremely basic example of a solidity contract.
It takes a string upon creation and then repeats it when greet() is called.
*/
contract Greeter // The contract definition. A constructor of the same name will be automatically called on contract creation.
{
address creator; // At first, an empty "address"-type variable of the name "owner". Will be set in the constructor.
string greeting; // At first, an empty "string"-type variable of the name "greeting". Will be set in constructor and can be changed.
function Greeter(string _greeting) public // The constructor. It accepts a string input and saves it to the contract's "greeting" variable.
{
creator = msg.sender;
greeting = _greeting;
}
function greet() constant returns (string)
{
return greeting;
}
function getBlockNumber() constant returns (uint) // this doesn't have anything to do with the act of greeting
{ // just demonstrating return of some global variable
return block.number;
}
function setGreeting(string _newgreeting)
{
greeting = _newgreeting;
}
/**********
Standard kill() function to recover funds
**********/
function kill()
{
if (msg.sender == creator)
suicide(creator); // kills this contract and sends remaining funds back to creator
}
}External Links
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