superiorto - Establish superior class relationship

Syntax

Description

superiorto('class1', 'class2', ...) establishes that the class invoking this function in its constructor has higher precedence than the classes in the argument list.

The superiorto function establishes a precedence that determines which object method MATLAB calls. Use this function only from a constructor that calls the class function to create an object. For classes defined with classdef statements, see Class Precedence.

Examples

Show function dispatching:

a is an object of class class_a, b is an object of class class_b, and c is an object of class class_c. The constructor method for class_c contains the statement superiorto('class_a'). Then, either of the following two statements:

e = fun(a,c);
e = fun(c,a);

invokes class_c/fun.

If you call a function with two objects having an unspecified relationship, MATLAB considers the two objects to have equal precedence. In this case, MATLAB calls the left-most object method. So fun(b,c) calls class_b/fun, while fun(c,b) calls class_c/fun.

See Also

inferiorto

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