Class Method to Implement Description
disp
display
Called when you enter disp(obj) on the
command line
Called by statements that are not terminated by
semicolons. disp is often used to implement
display methods.
See “Overloading the disp Function” on page 18-
42
See “Custom Display Interface” on page 18-2
Converting Objects to Other Classes
converters like double and char Convert an object to a MATLAB built-in class
See “The Character Converter” on page 19-16
and “The Double Converter” on page 19-15
Indexing Objects
subsref and subsasgn Enables you to create nonstandard indexed
reference and indexed assignment
See “Object Array Indexing” on page 17-15
end Supports end syntax in indexing expressions
using an object; e.g., A(1:end)
See “end as Object Index” on page 17-35
numel Determine the number of elements in an array
See “Modify nargout and nargin for Indexing
Methods” on page 17-9
numArgumentsFromSubscript Overload to specify the number of values to return
from indexing expressions.
See “Number of Arguments for subsref and
subsasgn” on page 17-6
Methods That Modify Default Behavior