I'm working on rewriting an old MATLAB package. As part of that rewrite I'm updating two classes (lets call them old_class1 and old_class2) defined using the class() function to classes defined with classdef.
The definition of old_class1 contains the line superiorto('old_class2'). This function is not allowed in a constructor defined with classdef, but I am unable to find any equivalent. How do I create functionality equivalent to superiorto() in a class defined with classdef?
superiorto is no longer available in MATLAB, but I was able to find a copy of old documentation that indicates it was used to determine which object's method was called when multiple different classes were given as function arguments. For example, given obj1=class1() and obj2=class2(), with the class1 constructor containing superiorto('class2'), would cause function(obj1,obj2) to callclass1.function, rather thanclass2.function`.
With modern classdef functionality, the same can be accomplished by setting the InferiorClasses property:
classdef (InferiorClasses = {?class2}) class1
