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If I have a contract that consist of a mapping and I want to interact with this mapping in another contract, which is inheriting the previous contract.

  • Should I then make sure to mark the mapping as 'internal' or don't give it any visibility at all?

I often see following mapping being inherited and interacted with by another contract but it never has any visibility specified. 

mapping(address => uint256) balances;

Shouldn't it be 

mapping(address => uint256) internal balances;

Thanks!

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Both are equivalent, since internal is the default. From https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/contracts.html#visibility-and-getters:

For state variables, external is not possible and the default is internal.

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  • thanks I thought state variables were private by default!
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    Jan 23, 2018 at 17:28
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