Per tpope:
"I just discovered the second of the two tabular fixes I gave you
doesn't work properly if the delimiter is at the very beginning of the
line... [It] pretended the leading whitespace was part of the padding,
which doesn't help if there's no leading whitespace."
This reverts commit 16f7b1e204.
The logic to clear a:lines and replace it with the return of the
function failed pretty miserably when the function returned a:lines. It
cleared a:lines and then replaced it with the (now empty) elements.
