Currently the code surrounding coalescing is duplicated between merging
with the span before the span considered for coalescing and merging with
the span after. This change factors out the shared portions of these
codepaths into a local closure which acts as a helper.

Change-Id: I7919fbed3f9a833eafb324a21a4beaa81f2eaa91
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/158077
Run-TryBot: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>