On 16 Mai, 23:33, Fredrik Johansson <fredrik.johans...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Maple also uses BesselJ, and I couldn't find a spherical function in > >> the help, but I know little about Bessel functions, so I could have > >> missed it. I think that this is best. Typing underscores is too > >> difficult, but just jn is too ambiguous. It also allows for expansion > >> to BesselI, BesselK, and BesselY, and they would all be grouped > >> together in dir(). I don't know if uppercase BesselJ or lowercase > >> besselj would be better. Typing dir() in isympy, seems to have a mix > >> of both upper and lower case named functions, with special functions > >> in both cases (Heaviside, gamma, zeta). > > > I was just thinking about this too. Basically I think we should stick > > to Python convention and that's it. Python convention is to use > > CamelCase() for classes and lower_case_with_underscores() for > > functions. Most of the things are implemented as classes in SymPy, > > thus it should just be BesselJ, Heaviside, Gamma, Zeta, etc. > > As pointed out before, a big advantage of this convention is that it > can be made absolutely consistent while avoiding clashes with > Python builtins. So we can have Sum() without shadowing Python's sum(), > Abs() without shadowing abs(), etc.
+1 for using camel case internally for functions, which would be consistent with Mul and friends. However it should be still possible to use/print the currently used lower case equivalent. Vinzent --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
