MATLAB Object-Oriented Programming

Find Default Values in Property Metadata.............. 16-20

Default Values.................................. 16-20

meta.property Data.............................. 16-20

Specialize Object Behavior

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Methods That Modify Default Behavior.................. 17-2

How to Customize Class Behavior ..................... 17-2

Which Methods Control Which Behaviors ............... 17-2

Overload Functions and Override Methods.............. 17-4

Number of Arguments for subsref and subsasgn .......... 17-6

How MATLAB Determines Number of Arguments......... 17-6

Syntax for subsref, and subsasgn Methods.............. 17-8

Modify nargout and nargin for Indexing Methods ......... 17-9

When to Modify Number of Arguments................. 17-9

How to Modify Number of Arguments.................. 17-9

Concatenation Methods ............................. 17-11

Default Concatenation............................ 17-11

Methods to Overload............................. 17-11

Object Converters.................................. 17-12

Why Implement Converters........................ 17-12

Converters for Package Classes ..................... 17-12

Converters and Subscripted Assignment............... 17-13

Object Array Indexing............................... 17-15

Default Indexed Reference and Assignment ............ 17-15

What You Can Modify............................. 17-16

When to Modify Indexing Behavior................... 17-17

Built-In subsref and subsasgn Called in Methods........ 17-17

Avoid Overriding Access Attributes ................... 17-19

Code Patterns for subsref and subsasgn Methods........ 17-21

Customize Indexed Reference and Assignment.......... 17-21

Syntax for subsref and subsasgn Methods............. 17-21

Indexing Structure Describes Indexing Expressions ...... 17-22

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