MATLAB Documentation for OOP
(For reference by students)

CONSTRUCTOR
Definition	A method named the same as the class that consumes initialization data and produces the initial data structure
Example	function acct = BankAccount(data) % BankAccount class constructor. %   ba = BankAccount(amt) creates a bank account %                             with balance amt % could also be a copy contructor: %   ba = BankAccount( oba ) copies the account oba if nargin == 0                            *%*    acct.balance = 0;    acct = class(acct,'BankAccount'); elseif isa(data, 'BankAccount')           *^*    acct = data; else    acct.balance = data;    acct = class(acct,'BankAccount'); end   A constructor should take into account the different instances of variations being passed into the function. * %* Provides for being called as just BankAccount without any data being passed into it. *^*    A copy constructor where if the parameter is a BankAccount, just copy it