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Claude Brisson commented on VELOCITY-496:
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Warning, last commits broke this patch.

Also, I suggested a less hackish way of achieving this in 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS-69 (but only for the tools).


> 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
>         Attachments: identifiers-merging.patch
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> 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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