Names of Bessel functions (Re: half integer bessel)



>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

>>>>> "Barton" == Barton Willis <willisb@unk.edu> writes:

    Barton> (b) I think we should dump support for the functions i0, i1, in,
    Barton> j0, j1, jn, and bessel.  How smart is it to have a function named in?

    Raymond> Agreed.  Need to decide what to do about %j, %y, and friends.  These
    Raymond> are used in other places, unlike j0, j1, and friends.  I think I just
    Raymond> left j0, etc., for backward compatibility.  For 6.0, I think we could
    Raymond> remove these.

I'll be committing some changes soon that removes j0, j1, etc., y0,
y1, etc. i0, i1, etc., g0, g1, etc.  Also bessel_j[n](x) and friends
will no longer be supported.  The functions will be bessel_j(n,x).

The change will also change the argument order from bessel(arg, order)
to bessel(order, arg), but perhaps we should just get rid of this
function altogether in favor of bessel_j(n,x).

Ray