which would previously raise an error. This will correspond to an
        attribute name with an embedded '.' symbol (e.g. 'a.b'), which can only
        be accessed indirectly (e.g. through getattr and setattr). To set this
        up the user will first need to explicitly add the variable to the hparam
        object (e.g. "hparams.add_hparam(name='a.b', value=0.0)").