CircularBuffer

The CircularBuffer type implements a circular buffer of fixed capacity where new items are pushed to the back of the list, overwriting values in a circular fashion.

Usage:

a = CircularBuffer{Int}(n)   # allocate an Int buffer with maximum capacity n
isfull(a)           # test whether the buffer is full
isempty(a)          # test whether the buffer is empty
empty!(a)           # reset the buffer
capacity(a)         # return capacity
length(a)           # get the number of elements currently in the buffer
size(a)             # same as length(a)
push!(a, 10)        # add an element to the back and overwrite front if full
pop!(a)             # remove the element at the back
unshift!(a, 10)     # add an element to the front and overwrite back if full
shift!(a)           # remove the element at the front
append!(a, [1, 2, 3, 4])     # push at most last `capacity` items
convert(Vector{Float64}, a)  # convert items to type Float64
eltype(a)           # return type of items
a[1]                # get the element at the front
a[end]              # get the element at the back