Specifying Class Precedence
InferiorClasses Attribute
You can specify the relative precedence of user-defined classes
using the class InferiorClasses attribute. Assign
a cell array of class names (represented as metaclass objects) to
this attribute to specify classes that are inferior to the class you
are defining. For example, the following classdef declares
that myClass is superior to class1 and class2.
classdef (InferiorClasses = {?class1,?class2}) myClass
...
endThe ? operator combined with a class name
creates a metaclass object. This syntax enables you to create a meta-class
object without requiring you to construct an actual instance of the
class.
MATLAB built-in classes are always inferior to user-defined
classes and should not be used in this list.
The built-in classes include: double, single, char, logical, int64, uint64, int32, uint32, int16, uint16, int8, uint8, cell, struct,
and function_handle.
More Information
See Determining Which Method Is Invoked for more on how the MATLAB classes
dispatch when evaluating expressions containing objects.
See Class Precedence and MATLAB Path for information on how the
location of a class definition on the MATLAB path determines
its precedence.
See Working with Meta-Classes for
information on meta-class objects.
No Attribute Inheritance
Subclasses do not inherit a superclass InferiorClasses attribute.
Only instances of the classes specified in the subclass InferiorClasses attribute
are inferior to subclass objects.
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