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Hi, I think the term zero address can be extremely confusing as sending a transaction to the actual zero address ("address(0)" in Solidity) does not create a new contract (the zero address is a normal address from the eyes of the evm).
From the solidity docs:
"If the target account is not set (the transaction does not have a recipient or the recipient is set to null), the transaction creates a new contract."
Link: https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.19/introduction-to-smart-contracts.html#index-8
I think this makes it clearer for new developers as a lot of developers in the ecosystem mistakenly think that creating a contract is by sending the bytecode to the address(0).
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Hi, just a small suggestion here, the "zero address" is super confusing because it seems that it means the actual 20 bytes zero address "address(0)" in solidity. As you know, a contract creation does not occur when the "to" address is set to the actual address(0), rather it gets executed when the "to" value is set to null, left empty or the "0x0". I know that the intention was to mean the "0x0" value but it is still confusing and a lot of new developers mistakenly think that creating a contract is by sending a transaction to the 0 address.
I think it is important to be more precise with this subject.
From the solidity docs:
"If the target account is not set (the transaction does not have a recipient or the recipient is set to null), the transaction creates a new contract."
link: https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.19/introduction-to-smart-contracts.html#index-8