So I traced the feature a bit longer.
In essense, why does this return the text:
(
options { greedy=false; } :
show:SOME_EXPRESSION
{System.out.println(show);}
)+
and why does this return null:
show:(
options { greedy=false; } :
SOME_EXPRESSION
)+
{System.out.println(show);}
?
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karl