And the kind of refactoring of next_arg() you are asking for here
is way out of scope,
Of course, of course, but why introduce Yet Another Parser to begin with?
so sorry but I don't plan to change this part
of the patch.
This is not good.
But I have no power to stop it, while being very sad about this attitude.
Andy, I do agree with you, but what would you suggest we can do about the situation?
Write a generic parser that everyone should use from now on, and then migrate all usage to this parser?