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

Maple uses BesselJ
Mathematica uses BesselJ
  there seems to be a pattern there.

Macsyma historically did not distinguish
between BESSELJ and besselj and so there was
a tendency to put _ as a word separator.

If we go into the brave new world of upper and
lower case, we might consider using BesselJ also.

%j  is an attempt to be consistent with
%pi and %i.

I'd go with bessel_j myself if we must have
case irrelevance.

RJF



James Amundson wrote:

> 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
> 
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