I just discovered that Matlab has implemented classes, but I can’t find any information as to how long this feature has existed. Does anybody know if the classes defined by classdef are backwards compatible with older versions of matlab?
If so, how far back?
Looks like it started in 2008a:
http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/introduction-to-object-oriented-programming-in-matlab.html
and also
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Software/matlabTutorial/html/objectOriented.html