Programming

Aggregation

In addition to standard inheritance, MATLAB objects support containment or aggregation. That is, one object can contain (embed) another object as one of its fields. For example, a rational object might use two polynom objects, one for the numerator and one for the denominator.

You can call a method for the contained object only from within a method for the outer object. When determining which version of a function to call, MATLAB considers only the outermost containing class of the objects passed as arguments; the classes of any contained objects are ignored.

See Example -- The Portfolio Container for an example of aggregation.

Multiple Inheritance

Example -- Assets and Asset Subclasses

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