Question

In ordinary class methods I can supply content for the “help” command in MATLAB. However, when writing an abstract method, the help function does not see the abstract methods. For example, if you have a class NeedsHelp:

classdef NeedsHelp
    methods (Abstract)
        INeedHelp(self)
        % This method is not visible to the help command.
    end
    methods
        function IHaveHelp(self)
            % This method shows help as expected.
        end
    end
end

The help command acts as follows (R2009b):

>> help NeedsHelp.IHaveHelp
  This method shows help as expected.

>> help NeedsHelp.INeedHelp

NeedsHelp.INeedHelp not found.

Are there any solutions to providing documentation for abstract methods?

Answer 1

Looks like this is not possible as of R2009b, according to Loren’s blog at The MathWorks. See this comment and her reply.