ABSTRACT
One of the nice things about inheritance, virtual functions, polymorphism, and arrays of objects is the promise that MATLAB will always find and execute the right function based on the object’s type. Following this to its conclusion, you might get the idea that a cShape
array should be able to hold objects in any combination of
cShape
,
cStar
, and
cDiamond
. In reality, the vectorized implementation inside
cShape
’s group of eight cannot deal with a mixture of types. Vectorized operations rely on every object having exactly the same private structure, and exactly the same type. Therefore, even though
cStar
objects can masquerade as
cShape
objects, with respect to building object arrays, there is definitely a difference.
