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Oh, I see now. I thought he was talking about a computer language but he was actually talking about the English language. My bad.

So are you saying that POLL was a bad choice of name because polling means "check if there is something available and if there is get it"?

What would be a better name? How about availableToFetch and fetch? Any other better idea?

I don't like remove because you are not actually removing the object from the ring.

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poll doesn't necessarily imply removing.

It is clear to me now that poll only removes if there is something to remove

A much better name would have been FETCH and not POLL

We'll be changing everything from poll to fetch in the next version => availableToFetch() and fetch()

While we are bikeshedding, what about peek() (returns the element, but doesn't dequeue), pop() (dequeue and return the element), try_peek(), try_pop() for the polling variants.

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