Fix symbol pattern in Scala lexer #1438
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The Scala lexer currently matches 'symbols' by ensuring that the last character in the match is not a
'
.The problem with this approach is that if the symbol occurs within a lexical structure (e.g. parentheses), the first character after the symbol (e.g. the closing parenthesis) would be matched as part of the symbol.
This PR uses the approach of a negative lookahead to avoid this problem.
This fixes #374.