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<p>I am studying the drools code and i have seen strange the method 'getNestedConstraintPrefixLenght()' in DRL6Parser.java: If i translate that function to a regular expression in antlr lexer, it would be "ID? ( (DOT | HASH) ID)* DOT LEFT_PARENT", which have few sense.</p>
<p>The header of 'nestedConstraint()' describes the expected the expected result as "( ID ( DOT | HASH ) )* ID DOT LEFT_PAREN constraints RIGHT_PAREN" : it internally calls to 'getNestedConstraintPrefixLenght()', consumes the numbers of items retuned by this, calls to 'constrains()' and cosumes a RIGHT_TOKEN.<br />For me the expected results described in the header of 'nestedConstraint()' do not correspond with the real results.</p>
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