How can I use the T() operator to get a type reference of a class whose package structure contains a spel reserved keyword?

Example: T(foo.ge.bar.Constants)
In this case the subpackage ge is interpreted as the comparison operator greater or equal (>=).

Is it a bug? Or is there a workaround for that?

Here is the code example and the exception detail I'm getting:

Code:
package foo.ge.bar;

import org.springframework.expression.Expression;
import org.springframework.expression.ExpressionParser;
import org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.SpelExpressionParser;

public class Constants {
   public static final String HELLO = "world";
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      ExpressionParser parser = new SpelExpressionParser();
      Expression exp = parser.parseExpression("T(foo.ge.bar.Constants).HELLO");
      String world = (String) exp.getValue();
   }
}
Code:
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.expression.spel.SpelParseException: EL1043E:(pos 6): Unexpected token.  Expected 'identifier' but was 'ge(>=)'
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.raiseInternalException(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:814)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatToken(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:744)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatPossiblyQualifiedId(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:593)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.maybeEatTypeReference(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:498)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatStartNode(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:452)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatPrimaryExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:300)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatUnaryExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:293)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatPowerExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:269)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatProductExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:250)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatSumExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:233)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatRelationalExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:195)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatLogicalAndExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:183)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatLogicalOrExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:171)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.eatExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:135)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.InternalSpelExpressionParser.doParseExpression(InternalSpelExpressionParser.java:116)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.SpelExpressionParser.doParseExpression(SpelExpressionParser.java:56)
	at org.springframework.expression.spel.standard.SpelExpressionParser.doParseExpression(SpelExpressionParser.java:1)
	at org.springframework.expression.common.TemplateAwareExpressionParser.parseExpression(TemplateAwareExpressionParser.java:66)
	at org.springframework.expression.common.TemplateAwareExpressionParser.parseExpression(TemplateAwareExpressionParser.java:56)
	at foo.ge.bar.Constants.main(Constants.java:11)