bug#33940: 27.0.50; ?\^c syntax confuses scanning

[Paul Eggert]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> in 20b858ef13f8f71fae6cbce5cdac31c4dd130600 "Prefer \... to control
> chars in .el literals" woman.el has been changed to contain reader
> syntaxes like "?\^]" - which apparently confuses `scan-sexps', e.g.
>
> (scan-sexps (point-min) (point-max))
> |- (scan-error "Containing expression ends prematurely" 81997 81998)
>
> Obviously `scan-sexps' doesn't handle this kind of syntax correctly.

The second argument to scan-sexps is a count, not position, so you might want to 
rethink that example.

Anyway, I'm not seeing any problems. I built the emacs-26 branch and ran the 
shell command:

src/emacs -Q lisp/woman.el

and then typed:

M-: (scan-sexps (point-min) (point-max)) RET

and it returned nil, which is what I'd expect. Can you reproduce the problem 
with a simple, self-contained test case like that?