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

Hi - My preference would lie with bessel_j, as most similar programs usually
use something like bessj, BesselJ, or whatever.  %j seems a little less
intuitive...

 Dave Holmgren

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Amundson" <amundson at fnal>
To: "Raymond Toy" <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>
Cc: "Valerij Pipin" <pip@iszf.irk.ru>; "Maxima List"
<maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: 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
>
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