Re: [apps-discuss] draft-pbryan-zyp-json-pointer: name syntax for non-ASCII

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 23 November 2011 21:37 UTC

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On Nov 23, 2011, at 19:12, Paul C. Bryan wrote:

> #/a/b/c ← intuitive
> #/%5C%22a%5C%22/%5C%22b%5C%22/%5C%22c%5C%22 ← not!  

As usual, the guiding principle is that easy things should be easy, and that hard things should be possible.
Complicating the usual case (the only one that many people seem to have thought about yet) is indeed a big no-no.

Grüße, Carsten