The new syntax tree introduced with 1.8 represents send statements
(ch <- x) as statements; the old syntax tree represented them as
expressions (and parsed them as such) but complained if they were
used in expression context. As a consequence, some of the errors
that in the past were of the form "ch <- x used as value" now look
like "unexpected <- ..." because a "<-" is not valid according to
Go syntax in those situations. Accept the new error message.

Also: Fine-tune handling of misformed for loop headers.

Also: Minor cleanups/better comments.

Fixes #17590.

Change-Id: Ia541dea1f2f015c1b21f5b3ae44aacdec60a8aba
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/37386Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>