**[Keith Donald](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=kdonald)** opened **[SPR-7652](https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-7652?redirect=false)** and commented This seems like a gap since the Unified EL does support this. --- **Affects:** 3.0.4 **Issue Links:** - #14779 Improve exceptions for multi-operand expressions - #14145 Cannot reference FactoryBean in a SpEL expression