The old behavior results in lots of concatenations happening for no good
reason and is an artifact of the technical limitations of the old parser
(combined with some lack of care for such details).
Change-Id: I0d78d6220ca6aeaa10bc437e48e08bf7922e0bb3
This commit should faithfully reproduce the old behavior down to the
bugs. The new code is a lot more readable, all quirks are well
documented, and it is overall much more maintainable.
Change-Id: I629585918e4f2b7d296b6b8330235cdc90b7bade