Arguably, the language would be even saner if we did:rather than having explicit levels as in
\H[My h1][
Paragraph.
\H[My h2][]
]
\H[1][My h1]
and so on.But we chose not to do it like most markups available because it leads to too many nesting levels, and hard to determine where you are without tooling.
Ciro later "invented" (?)
\H
parent
argument, which he feels reaches the perfect balance between the advantages of those two options.