Removes an intermediate layer of functions that was clogging up a
corner of the compiler's profile graph.

I can't measure a performance improvement running a large build
like jujud, but the profile reports less total time spent in
gc.(*lexer).getr.

Change-Id: I3000585cfcb0f9729d3a3859e9023690a6528591
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20565Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>