Package with an environment-based sectioning mechanism?

Question

Is there any package for LaTeX that performs sectioning using environments, where doing something like

\begin{section}[Section Title]    
\begin{section}[Subsection Title]  
\begin{section}[Subsubsection Title]  
\begin{section}[Subsubsubsection Title]    
\end{section}  
\end{section}  
\end{section}  
\end{section}

does the obvious thing (please infer from the stuff in the []'s!)?

Answer 1

As mentioned in an answer to the question @lockstep linked above, I have some non-maintained code to attempt this here: http://github.com/wspr/newsec. (Run the .dtx through LaTeX to get the .sty file and the documentation.)

If you do find this useful or otherwise have comments, let me know and I'll consider putting it on CTAN. (Depending how long it takes to tidy up.)