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Re: [apps-discuss] Review of draft-ietf-appsawg-json-pointer

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Thu, 15 November 2012 17:36 UTC

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On Nov 15, 2012, at 9:27 AM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:

> This came from a requirement with json patch to allow a way of appending new array items to the end. This was fairly extensively discussed and concluded that the - was the least-complicated option that met the requirement. 

Understood. However, is there *no* reason to prepend something to the beginning of the list? Or is that done with "1"? (I admit not fully getting all the fun features of -patch).

--Paul Hoffman

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