%j vs bessel_j and other name issues



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