34.6 classdef Classes

Since version 4.0, Octave has limited support for classdef classes. In contrast to the aforementioned classes, called old style classes in this section, classdef classes can be defined within a single m-file. Other innovations of classdef classes are:

Several features have to be added in future versions of Octave to be fully compatible to MATLAB. An overview of what is missing can be found at https://wiki.octave.org/Classdef.