- better error messages
- better error recovery by advancing to "follow" token after error
- make sure that we make progress after all errors
- minor cleanups

Change-Id: Ie43b8b02799618d70dc8fc227fab3e4e9e0d8e3a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/16892
Run-TryBot: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Manghane <cmang@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>