Re: laguerre.m functions in specfun package

[Colin Macdonald]

On 07/05/15 20:10, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On the specific
> case of specfun, sometimes is the symbolic package, other cases it's Octave
> core.  All the ones that would belong to core have been moved there in the
> last few years, only the ones for symbolic are missing.

+1  Except that we do not need to be obligated to put them exactly where 
Mathworks does: I personally think dirac.m and heaviside.m could happily 
live in core.  (Although I'm also happy to carry them in Symbolic).

> The only problem I have with this is symbolic's dependency on SymPy which
> would be inflicted on users that are not actually interested on symbolic
> computations.

Yes, we should be careful about that.

I will happily merge patches to symbolic for orphaned functions from 
specfun.  Although in many cases, the symbolic version isn't there yet!

Colin