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

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.
>

I vote for bessel_j.  Definitely I don't like  %j, %k, %ibes.
IMHO only fundamental math contants should have such
short special names %i, %e, %pi.

>
> --Jim
>
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