Possible to define a literal Map in a template?

[Beland, Andre]

The user documentation sais:
#set( $monkey.Map = {"banana" : "good", "roast beef" : "bad"}) ## Map 


But I get a parsing exception when I try:
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##Set some values within the template
## Works fine
#set( $text = "this is some text" )

## Map - BROKEN
#set( $myLiteralMap = {"message" : "hello", "foo" : "bar"}) 

Here is some text:
$text

Here are some values:
#foreach( $key in $myLiteralMap.keySet() )
  $key  has a value of:  $myLiteralMap.get($key)
#end
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Is it possible to INITIALIZE a map from within a template? If so, how?

Thanks.