MATLAB: Does the function ‘details’ show more than ‘disp’ for objects

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According to the documentation, the 'details' function provides more information when the input is an object than 'disp'. However, looking at the code of 'details' (which is not a built-in function), it just invokes 'disp'. Then how can it result in a different output? Used MATLAB version: R2015b, Linux 64 bit

Best Answer

>> which -all details
/Applications/MATLAB_R2017a.app/toolbox/matlab/lang/details.m
details is a built-in method                                   % string method
details is a built-in method                                   % meta.PackageList method
details is a built-in method                                   % handle method
details is a built-in method                                   % meta.ClassList method
details is a built-in method                                   % meta.FunctionList method
details is a built-in method                                   % meta.TypeList method
details is a built-in method                                   % matlab.mixin.internal.indexing.Paren method
[...]
So the disp() source you are looking at is only used for objects that do not have a more specific method.
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