- last meaningful commit to this by Yousuke in 2005, code is
     undocumented and unclear to me what it does.
     I'm not aware of anyone using or planning to use this code, so
     I'm proposing to later also remove it from master.
     Will disucss this in CW telecon.
   - refs #20
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