Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
This doesn't save any lines, but does keep us from doing
error-prone pointer arithmetic with constants.
Yeah, this and 7/8 shows that the true value of the new parse
function is not line number reduction but clarity of the calling
code. There is really no point making everybody implement "last_dot
is there, so the subsection name must be between the section name
and that last_dot" like the original before this patch.
Thanks. Will read it over again and then apply.