MATLAB Object-Oriented Programming

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