Proposed changes to the Matrix math packages:

1) In the packages I reference a matrix with A(row,col).   Matlab references with A(col, row).   The change would involve reversing the index of every funciton.
Pro:  Make it more like matlab and less like C
Con:  Would take several days to make the change.

2) Ability to flatten a matrix into a vector.

3) Remove the polyval, tril, triu, blkdiag functions
Pro:  These are standard Matlab function.
Con:  There are typically only used it Matlab demonstrations...

4) better documentaiton for "buildmatrix" function.

5) "randn" function Creates a random matrix with a gausian destribution.

6) create versions of the "zeros" and "ones" and other matrix initalizing commands which take a matrix as an argument (just to get the size).  Thus you could say:
a <= zeros (5,5);
a <= zeros (a);

7) Use "positive" ranges instead of "natural" ranges.  This would make the matrix package work more like Matlab.   However an address of "(0,0)" would be illegal.  The VHDL-2008 predefined types for index_vector and real_vector include zero, so this would be a disconnect.

8) Check ranges to make sure that it is always 1 to x and not "downto" x.

9) "**" operator
This operator is recursive is the power is greater than 2.  Should someting greather than 2 create an error?