Allow periods in references secondary keys.
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                 Key: VELOCITY-496
                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-496
             Project: Velocity
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Engine
    Affects Versions: 1.6
            Reporter: Claude Brisson
            Priority: Minor


This is a quite prospective proposal that emerged from a discussion in a 
VelocityTools JIRA issue (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS-69).

Its goal is to have the short syntax $map.foo.bar chek the existence of 
$map.get("foo.bar") when $map.foo is null.

Backward compatibility is 99%, since it only breaks templates that rely on 
$map.foo.bar being an invalid reference while having foo.bar as key in map.

The implementation doesn't look obvious, and we must ensure that there are no 
other side effects, yet this behaviour can be quite usefull when dealing with 
HTML field names that contain a period.


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