Is it possible to add methods to containers.Map class in Matlab?

Question

I'm trying to add a method to the containers.Map class, for example

function sayHello(obj)
    disp('Hello!')
end

And I want to be able to do:

map = containers.Map('Foo', 'Bar');
map.sayHello

I've added sayHello.m to /my/path/+containers/@Map, but methods containers.Map and which -all sayHello both don't find my method.

What am I doing wrong? Is it not possible to add methods to this class?

Thanks

It may not be possible to add methods to a built-in class, but you should be able to subclass it. — Jonas, Apr 04 '16 at 14:54
Thanks @Jonas, but I have managed to add methods (in the way described in my question) to `cell`, `char` and `fints` - just not `containers.Map`. — rwb, Apr 04 '16 at 15:03
Because `containers.Map` is relatively new (R2008b compared to the other classes you listed), it probably falls under different method overloading rules as [discussed here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34602298/add-a-method-to-matlab-table-class/34603252#34603252) and needs to be sub-classed for extension. — TroyHaskin, Apr 04 '16 at 17:33

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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As pointed out in the comments, this looks to not be possible. Rubbish.

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