Mary Ann Hainsworth, started working as a Resource Conservationist under the ACES Program in January of 2011 after retiring from NRCS. She provides assistance for the Wellington Field Office with everything from staking in the field to conservation contract support.
It is convenient to overload commonly used functions to work with objects of your class. For example, suppose that a class defines a property that stores data that you often graph. The MyData bar method has the same name as the MATLAB bar function. However, the MyData bar method requires a MyData object as input.
How to call inherited class function. Suppose I have a class Parent and a class Child. Child is an inherited class of Parent. Child also has a class function Function() (which is not a base class function). I then have another class Process, which takes objects of class Parent by reference in its constructor (for the purposes of generality). The actual object that is fed in in main() however is of class Child - let call this childArg.