The paper states that by using cShape function, it has drawn shapes that look like a star, a rectangle, and a diamond. Even though these three shapes have a lot in common, it is recognized as three different shapes. The inheritance builds a set of classes to recreate this taxonomy without copying a lot of code. Member functions common to all shapes are found only in cShape. Member functions with code tailored for each particular shape type are found in each particular directory. Inheritance is the glue that allows to build the hierarchy and allows MATLAB to find the appropriate function.

Chapter Contents:

• 12.1 Simple Inheritance
• 12.1.1 Constructor
• 12.1.2 Other Standard Member Functions
• 12.1.2.1 Child Class fieldnames
• 12.1.2.2 Child Class get
• 12.1.2.3 Child Class set
• 12.1.3 Parent Slicing in Nonstandard Member Functions
• 12.1.3.1 draw.m
• 12.1.3.2 mtimes.m
• 12.1.3.3 reset.m
• 12.2 Test Drive
• 12.3 Summary
• 12.4 Independent Investigations

Inspec keywords: object-oriented programming

Other keywords: member function; hierarchy construction; shape type; function inheritance; Matlab; cShape function

Subjects: Object-oriented programming