[antlr-interest] strange behavior

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options {
language = "CSharp";
}

class CSParser extends Parser;
options {
buildAST = true; // uses CommonAST by default
}

identifier : IDENT (DOT^ IDENT)*
;


class CSLexer extends Lexer;

// Whitespace -- ignored
WS : ( ' '
| '\t'
| '\f'
| ( options {generateAmbigWarnings=false;} 
: "\r\n" // Evil DOS
| '\r' // Macintosh
| '\n' // Unix (the right way)
)
{ newline(); }
)+
{ _ttype = Token.SKIP; }
;

DOT : '.' ;

IDENT : ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'_') ('a'..'z'|'A'..'Z'|'_'|'0'..'9')*
; 
class CSTreeWalker extends TreeParser; 
identifier 
: #(ASDF identifier IDENT) 
; 
This file is to parse string like "aaa.bbb.ccc". The tree should be 
like (. (. bbb ccc) aaa) 

Please look at second last line. Token ASDF is not defined at all. 
But this grammar works. 

If I changes ASDF into DOT, or I remove the Treewalker section, it 
will have IndexOutOfRangeException. 

Can anyone tell me why? 

Thanks




 

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