Can dereferencing semantics be disabled?

Hi - this is a silly question and I apologize in advance, but I must ask it.

I know that the "." character is a dereferencing operator when used in a
variable name;

for example
    ${employee.id)

I believe translates to 
    employee.getId()  (more or less)

as it would in OGNL.   

Is it possible to either disable this dereferencing and treat token
'employee.id'  as a simple, unparsed variable name, OR to change the "."
syntax to some other character? 

Thanks - 
Kent
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