MATLAB Documentation for OOP
(For reference by students)

CLASS
Definition	Creates an object or return object class. It must be invoked within a constructor method, in a file named <class_name>.m in a directory named @<class_name>. Further, 'class_name' must be the second argument to CLASS. O = CLASS(S,'class_name') creates an object of class 'class_name' from the structure S. O = CLASS(S,'class_name',PARENT1,PARENT2,...) also inherits the methods and fields of the parent objects PARENT1, PARENT2, ... O = CLASS(struct([]),'class_name',PARENT1,PARENT2,...), specifying an empty structure S, creates an object that inherits from one or more parent classes, but which does not have any additional fields not inherited from the parents.
Example	function acct = BankAccount(data) if nargin == 0    acct.balance = 0;    acct = class(acct,'BankAccount'); elseif isa(data, 'BankAccount')    acct = data; else    acct.balance = data;    acct = class(acct,'BankAccount'); ----> creates a object of class BankAccount end