Name for Bessel functions (Re: [Maxima] cvs-maxima tests)
Subject: Name for Bessel functions (Re: [Maxima] cvs-maxima tests)
From: Raymond Toy
Date: 22 May 2002 18:20:45 -0400
>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
James> Thanks. Don't forget rtest6a.mac.
Oops. Forgot about that. Done.
As I explained, since Maxima already had %j, %k and %ibes (docs say
%i, but it's really %ibes) functions, I added simplifiers for these
instead of using the names bessel_j, etc., that Macsyma uses.
Is this acceptable? Do we want to support bessel_j instead? Or, I
can probably have bessel_j be recognized but converted to %j instead.
I'd like to settle this question and add a little bit of documentation
since it's unlikely someone would figure out that %j was Bessel J
unless he looked up specint by accident. describe(bessel) and
describe(%j) produces nothing.
Ray