I asked the list and here was the response I got. Personally, I think that it would be a good idea, but I don't know how to implement it myself.
"The besselexpand is an option variable in maxima core (part of the bessel function package) and simplify_sum is a share package. In general I think that share packages should not modify core options when it is not necessary. And I think functions in general should not change option variables so that the user can't control them. So the reason why simplify_sum doesn't change besselexpand to true is not because I know of some problems with it, but because I try to avoid such behaviour of functions (I knew that simplify_sum would return nicer results with besselexpand:true when I wrote that part of simplify_sum). But maybe this is a situation in which changing global option variables should be allowed from a function. HTH, Andrej" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
