Thanks for your response, Sean. However, it turns out every (nonabstract) class has a static method called empty, which can be used to create empty array. It makes things much simpler. See details here .
Matrix/Array of Objects vs. Class Constructor
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Let say I have a class Foo
classdef Foo
function obj = Foo(x,y)
% constructor's body
end
end
If I want to preallocate spaces for a matrix of Foo objects
>> foos = Foo(3,4);
How is it different from creating one object with arguments x = 3, y = 4?
>> foo = Foo(3,4);
Note that if I avoid preallocation, Matlab will give me some warning due to speed optimization.
Thanks,
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Sean de Wolski
on 30 Sep 2014
Edited: Sean de Wolski
on 30 Sep 2014
It depends on how your class sizes obj:
classdef FooC
properties
x
end
methods
function obj = FooC(sz)
obj.x = 1;
obj = repmat(obj,sz);
end
end
end
Now
fc = FooC([3,4])
I don't particularly like this approach. I would typically recommend constructing it similar to how you would construct a distributed array or gpuArray using static methods. Consider this:
classdef FooC
properties
x
end
methods
function obj = FooC()
obj.x = 1;
end
end
methods(Static)
function obj = preallocate(sz)
obj = FooC();
obj = repmat(obj,sz);
end
end
end
Now FooC always returns a scalar object but FooC.preallocate will give you an sz object, compare:
fcscalar = FooC
fcmat = FooC.preallocate([3,4])
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Sean de Wolski
on 1 Oct 2014
This is where varargin is your friend:
function preallocate(sz,varargin)
obj = FooC(varargin{:})
obj = repmat(obj,sz);
end
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