Matlab classes supported?

[David Bateman]

Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm trying to figure out if Octave already supports Matlab
> Classes and Object-Oriented Programming as explained on
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab_oop/ug_intropage.html
>
> I've found this thread:
>
> https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2006-November/002333.html
>
> Where John announces that classes won't appear in any snapshot
> until after 3.0 is released.
>
> Here at work, I only have access to Octave 2.9.12 that comes
> packaged in the Linux distribution we're using.  I did a small
> test with the following code example from the Matlab website:
>
> classdef TensileData
>    properties
>       Material = '';
>       SampleNumber = 0;
>       Stress
>       Strain
>       Modulus = 0;
>    end
> end
>
> but it does not seem to work:
>
>
>   

classdef was added in Matlab 2008b (ie in the last few months), the 
older matlab OOP features are supported in Octave 3.1.51 but not Octave 
3.0.1

Regards
David


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