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



On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:20, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "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, personally, prefer bessel_j to %j. I would appreciate hearing
comments from the others on the list.

--Jim