Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 23 November 2011 17:37 UTC

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On 2011-11-23 18:19, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> I'm now inclined to simply make "to" a JSON pointer as well.
> Semantically it's clear, It's easy to apply, and JSON diff
> implementations can be smart if they want and notice something moved
> from one node in the graph to another.

+1, except that I'm not convinced that leaving this optional is a good 
idea...