diff --git a/basis/circular/circular-docs.factor b/basis/circular/circular-docs.factor
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@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+! Copyright (C) 2008 Doug Coleman.
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
+USING: help.markup help.syntax io.streams.string sequences
+math kernel ;
+IN: circular
+
+HELP: <circular-string>
+{ $values
+     { "n" integer }
+     { "circular" circular } }
+{ $description "Creates a new circular string object. A circular string is a string object that can be accessed out of bounds and the index will wrap around to the start of the string." } ;
+
+HELP: <circular>
+{ $values
+     { "seq" sequence }
+     { "circular" circular } }
+{ $description "Creates a new " { $link circular } " object that wraps an existing sequence. By default, the index is set to zero." } ;
+
+HELP: <growing-circular>
+{ $values
+     { "capacity" integer }
+     { "growing-circular" growing-circular } }
+{ $description "Creates a new growing-circular object." } ;
+
+HELP: change-circular-start
+{ $values
+     { "n" integer } { "circular" circular } }
+{ $description "Changes the start index of a circular object." } ;
+
+HELP: circular
+{ $description "A tuple class that stores a sequence and its start index." } ;
+
+HELP: growing-circular
+{ $description "A circular sequence that is growable." } ;
+
+HELP: push-circular
+{ $values
+     { "elt" object } { "circular" circular } }
+{ $description "Pushes an element to a " { $link circular } " object." } ;
+
+HELP: push-growing-circular
+{ $values
+     { "elt" object } { "circular" circular } }
+{ $description "Pushes an element onto a " { $link growing-circular } " object." } ;
+
+ARTICLE: "circular" "circular"
+"The " { $vocab-link "circular" } " vocabulary implements the " { $link "sequence-protocol" } " to allow an arbitrary start index and wrap-around indexing." $nl
+"Creating a new circular object:"
+{ $subsection <circular> }
+{ $subsection <circular-string> }
+{ $subsection <growing-circular> }
+"Changing the start index:"
+{ $subsection change-circular-start }
+"Pushing new elements:"
+{ $subsection push-circular }
+{ $subsection push-growing-circular } ;
+
+ABOUT: "circular"
diff --git a/basis/circular/circular.factor b/basis/circular/circular.factor
index 5d2378120f..9f3a71f2a8 100755
--- a/basis/circular/circular.factor
+++ b/basis/circular/circular.factor
@@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ TUPLE: circular seq start ;
 : <circular> ( seq -- circular )
     0 circular boa ;
 
+<PRIVATE
 : circular-wrap ( n circular -- n circular )
     [ start>> + ] keep
     [ seq>> length rem ] keep ; inline
+PRIVATE>
 
 M: circular length seq>> length ;
 
@@ -37,11 +39,13 @@ TUPLE: growing-circular < circular length ;
 
 M: growing-circular length length>> ;
 
+<PRIVATE
 : full? ( circular -- ? )
     [ length ] [ seq>> length ] bi = ;
 
 : set-peek ( elt seq -- )
     [ length 1- ] keep set-nth ;
+PRIVATE>
 
 : push-growing-circular ( elt circular -- )
     dup full? [ push-circular ]