JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 358a2c9181fdc5ba70963db547d374ef8b91c445
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By ViralBShah:

This should really be called specfun. specfun is a commonly used term on netlib, in matlab, octave etc. whereas special is sort of a more generic term.Of course, the name "special functions" is a bit strange, and there could surely be a better name for this class of functions.