🚀 go-pugleaf

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?

-- 
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| Rod Oldehoeft                    Email: rro@cs.colostate.edu |
| Computer Science Department      Voice: 303/491-5792         |
| Colorado State University        Fax:   303/491-6639         |
| Fort Collins, CO  80523                                      |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| Three outstanding attitudes---obliviousness to the growing   |
| disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement,|
| and the illusion of invulnerable status---are persistent     |
| aspects of folly.   ---Barbara Tuchman, "The March of Folly" |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|