;;functions takeen from Lisp book fig 7.1
(defstruct buf
  vec (start -1) (used -1) (new -1) (end -1))

(defun bref (buf n)
  (svref (buf-vec buf)
         (mod n (length (buf-vec buf)))))

(defun (setf bref) (val buf n)
  (setf (svref (buf-vec buf)
               (mod n (length (buf-vec buf))))
        val))

(defun new-buf (len)
  (make-buf :vec (make-array len)))

(defun buf-insert (x b)
  (setf (bref b (incf (buf-end b))) x))

(defun buf-pop (b)
  (prog1 
    (bref b (incf (buf-start b)))
    (setf (buf-used b) (buf-start b)
          (buf-new  b) (buf-end   b))))

(defun buf-next (b)
  (when (< (buf-used b) (buf-new b))
    (bref b (incf (buf-used b)))))

(defun buf-reset (b)
  (setf (buf-used b) (buf-start b)
        (buf-new  b) (buf-end   b)))

(defun buf-clear (b)
  (setf (buf-start b) -1 (buf-used  b) -1
        (buf-new   b) -1 (buf-end   b) -1))

(defun buf-flush (b str)
  (do ((i (1+ (buf-used b)) (1+ i)))
      ((> i (buf-end b)))
    (princ (bref b i) str)))