RFC: add evalpoly function, mirroring @evalpoly macro #7186
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As mentioned in #7146, since we have an
@evalpoly(z, c...)
it makes sense to also have aevalpoly(z, c)
, analogous to Matlab's polyval but with the arguments in reverse order and the coefficients in ascending order by power ofz
.We could alternatively mirror Matlab and store the coefficients in descending order, in which case we might as well swap the arguments and call it
polyval
. However, this issue seems to have been discussed in vtjnash/Polynomial.jl#5, and the consensus seems to have been to reject Matlab's ordering, resulting in @Keno's Polynomials.jl fork.