Or maybe just write a completely new function:
function circupdate!(A, x)
(n, m) = size(A)
assert n == length(x)
for j = 2:m
for i = 1:n
A[i, j-1] = A[i, j]
end
end
for i = 1:n
A[i, m] = x[i]
end
end
