> I don't even understand what the second one is supposed to mean at
> all -- the :1: means to start with "b" and the -2 means to go back 2
> elements...? How do you derive "a c" from any possible interpretation
> of this?
I assume that he wants to be able to treat an indexed array as a circular
buffer without having to do any of the work in a script.
Chet
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