Replying to a message of James Vahn to Darryl Gregorash:
JV> Imagine a slowly revolving waterwheel and that you're
JV> looking at the circumference with a lens. You can move the
JV> lens clockwise or move it counterclockwise. I call it a
JV> "circular buffer", having first seen the effect on COMIT.
JV> What is it really called?
Dunno.. doesn't seem to be a queue, certainly isn't a stack, so circular
buffer is probably as good a name as any, unless you want to call it a
sliding window.
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