I'm currently writing a control theory package for Julia. The MATLAB control theory toolbox has been around forever, and is *the standard* grammar for the field. Almost all control theory packages in other languages just replicate the same set of functions, with the same names. The function names are so hardcoded into me, that I'm reluctant to change them.
That said, several of them conflict with Julia base function names. For example: `zero(sys::LTISystem)` would compute the zeros of the system in MATLAB, but in Julia this should create the "zero-valued" system `step(sys::LTISystem)` computes the step-response, but in julia it gives the step for a range There are others as well. I see two options here: 1.) I begrudgingly rename them, and attempt to retrain my muscle-memory when writing code :/ 2.) Some functions don't do what they do in julia base for these types #1 probably is for the best, but I'm wondering what the community response is to this? I come from a heavy Python background, and without namespaces, I'm not sure how to handle function name-clashing best.
