Can you do this? I'm not certain. I know in previous releases having multiple class directories on the path would treat the union of the files in those directories as being the definition of the class, but that has changed. From the documentation: "In MATLAB Versions 5 through 7, class folders do not shadow other class folders having the same name, but residing in later path folders. Instead, the class uses the combination of methods from all class folders having the same name to define the class. This behavior is no longer supported."
Should you do this? I would not, as I think it would be likely that you would try to run / debug one of the versions of the method but actually be calling the other.
If you describe in more detail the application you're trying to implement using this approach we may be able to offer a different suggestion, one that avoids deliberate shadowing.
