Mathematica compatibility functions



On 9/11/08, John Lapeyre <pdl at johnlapeyre.com> wrote:

>   How should the functions be named ?

With lowercase, separating words by underscores.
It's not important to preserve the exact same name.

>  Mma          Maxima
>  -------------------
>  Riffle        join
>  Join          append
>  Append        cons
>  Union (lists) union (sets)
>
>  (btw: In the first three cases, the Mma names are better than Maxima)

Disagreed. Although "join" is unfortunate.

>  So another choice is
>
>  * lowercase Mma name and prepend 'm'

Opposed.

best,

Robert Dodier