ABSTRACT
Near the end of the previous chapter, I alluded to the fact that MATLAB gives us a way to tailor standard dot-reference syntax to suit the needs of our objects. In the eyes of our clients, dotreference tailoring makes an object look like a structure. This gives objects an enormous boost. If objects look like structures, using objects rather than structures is completely transparent. Transparency is a good thing because it gives us immediate access to a very powerful tool we can use to protect the integrity of our code, encapsulation.
