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Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 10 November 2011 10:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch
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On 10 November 2011 21:01, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> ...I'll have to ask :-). What about changing the notation for array elements
> to use [ and ]? More complexity in the expression language, but also more
> readability, I believe...

That sounds like a good idea.  Use JSON string representation and you
can deal with any sort of identifier without much new code...
["foo"][3]["bar"]  The approach worked for JSON itself, why not here
too?

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