At least to me, there is no issue with this particular class. I reference it only as a kludge to supress strict-type warnings, and the usage is #ifdef'd such the code should work in 7.5 too (but in truth I haven't tested for other possible incompatibilities, I don't have 7.5 installed yet).
/ rjb
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2003-05-24 12:40: Subject: Locale.Charset.ascii
Yes, if internal things that has been accessible from the outside disappear we better speculate that somebody is using them. It's a matter of threshold when compatibility goo becomes necessary. I'd say that if the thing hardly can be considered useful and if no reported use of it exists then it isn't necessary, but in this case we know it's used.
We can only blame the user if there's a comment or similar that says the thing is internal, but that isn't the case with the ascii class in 7.4. Given that autodoc comments overall still is fragmentary I don't think it's enough that the lack of such a comment is enough. I.e. I don't think rjb had bad judgement when he saw the class in the module and decided to use it.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS