[Numpy-discussion] polyfit

For teaching it is certainly nice to have numpy.polynomial.polynomial.polyfit providing modern (vs. traditional) parameter order, but - it is rather buried - np.polyfit uses traditional order and has the same name I recall there was some controversy (?) over all of this, but might it not be appropriate to have a keyword argument to both specifying whether the parameter order is to be modern or traditional (in both polyfits and polyvals)? fwiw, Alan Isaac