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- From: rro@cs.ColoState.EDU (Rod Oldehoeft)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Origin of "dope vector"
- Message-ID: <Aug19.205611.51383@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:56:11 GMT
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- I'm writing up a little paper on array implementation and
- manipulation. I use the term "dope vector" for the data
- structure that holds lower and upper bounds and subscripting
- multipliers for each dimension. The oldest reference I
- have for this particular term is Gries' 1971 book, where
- the reference is:
-
- ... "For arrays this template is called a dope vector or
- information vector. ...
-
- The terms are underlined, but still it seems to be a term
- in common use at that time. Does anyone know where the
- term was first coined?
-
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