(sexp-at-point) always returns nil..

[D. Goel <deego@glue.umd.edu>]

 [I apologize if i have somehow screwed up my installation, and seem
 to be findign so many bugs when there are none.. if that is so, can
 someone let me know? thansk]

Does anyone else see this bug in CVS: (today's)
Do an emacs -q -no-site-file and: 
(sexp-at-point) always returns nil. 
This results from (read-from-whole-string) failing with this
backtrace:
,----
| 
| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't read whole string")
|   signal(error ("Can't read whole string"))
|   error("Can't read whole string")
|   read-from-whole-string("(+ 2 3)")
|   eval((read-from-whole-string "(+ 2 3)"))
|   eval-expression((read-from-whole-string "(+ 2 3)") nil)
|   call-interactively(eval-expression)
| 
`----

What is bizarre, is: i now load thingatpt.el and then try again.. the
bug is gone. Then i load thingatpt.elc and try again, and the bugs
reappear. 


Moreover, 'diff -cw thingatpt.el-emacs21.2.1 thingatpt-cvs.el' returns
nothing.  And sexp-at-point works fine in 21.2.1.  So, the bug is
somehow in the compilation...  (Or has this cvs-newbie screwed up the
cvs installation?)

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll
bars)
 of 2002-08-23 on darwin
configured using `configure
--prefix=/home/deego/pub/pub/spcusr/usr/local'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: 
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t