 
 ;; strings and character literals
 (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "\"" scala-mode-syntax-table)
-(modify-syntax-entry ?\' "\"" scala-mode-syntax-table)
 (modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "\\" scala-mode-syntax-table)
 
 ;; different kinds of "parenthesis"



(defvar scala-font-lock-syntactic-keywords
  '((scala-search-special-identifier-forward (0 "w" nil t))))

;; Bug reporting


  "Regular expression matching a Scala string literal.")

(defconst scala-char-re
  "'\\([^\\\\]\\|\\(\\\\[^']\\)\\)'"
  "Regular expression matching a Scala character literal.")

(defconst scala-literal-re
