At Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:42:16 -0400,
Liam Healy wrote:
> I noticed an oddity in the Jacobian elliptic functions function.  It
> is named gsl_sf_elljac_e, but despite the "_e" at the end, it
> produces no error estimates, just three plain doubles.  Should this
> be renamed gsl_sf_elljac to be consistent with what appears to be a
> naming convention for special functions?

Hello

The _e refers to the error code (int) that is returned, so the name is
correct.

> Also, should there be another function with that name that does
> produce error estimates?

If someone wants to write a version with error estimates, we could add
it.

-- 
Brian Gough

GNU Scientific Library -
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/


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