Richard Fateman wrote:
> I find the mechanism in use by Mathematica for naming to
> be pretty handy, and you already see it (maybe before Mathematica!)
> in macsyma.
> That would be to spell out the name and symbol and concatenate them
> like BesselJ BesselK
> People using %j could do
> %j(a,b):=BesselJ(a,b) and/or maybe use an alias renaming, to map %j to
> BesselJ.
Yes, but I think we have agreed not to use mixed case, so it's bessel_j,
But with a case-sensitive maxima, mixed case should work better, but I
can't stand typing mixed case stuff, and much prefer underscores. (Or
even better, dashes like lisp, but maxima doesn't like that..)
Ray