From: Gordon James Miller <gmiller@...>
Date: 2003-08-22T10:36:49+09:00
Subject: Re: POLS and names of mathematical functions

I personally have always seen the use of acosh, asinh, and atanh in
software libraries.  It should be quite trivial to just alias the longer
names.

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:44, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> Saluton!
> 
> Implementing some additional mathematical functions I came across
> acosh, asinh, and atanh. Here the Principle of Least Surprise runs
> into a severe problem.
> 
> On the one hand it is not that uncommon to use these names. On the
> other hand mathematicians prefer to call them arcosh, arsinh and
> atanh.
> 
> What about allowing for *both* names in later versions of Ruby?
> 
> Several names for one method are not that uncommon in Ruby. For a
> hash h the follwing methods are identical:
> 
> h.key?
> h.has_key?
> h.include?
> h.member?
> 
> Gis,
> 
> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt