Name for Bessel functions (Re: [Maxima] cvs-maxima tests)



>>>>> "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