Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Pointer syntax

I don't have a specific thread in hand I can point you to right now.
Back in the early days, the lists we discussed this on were: JSON
Schema, JSON Patch and CouchDB. I can probably (later) also dig-up some
email exchanges with Kris Zyp regarding his decision to abandon dot
notation in favour of slash.

Paul

On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 11:05 -0700, James M Snell wrote:
> Paul, do you happen to have a link referencing the path/pointer
> discussion readily available? I (and I'm sure others) would appreciate
> being able to review what specific arguments were made. I could go
> hunting for them myself but figured it might be faster just to ask.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Paul C. Bryan <pbryan@anode.ca>
> wrote:
>         For fun reading—and a bit of a history lesson—see
>         http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pbryan-json-patch-00 and
>         check out its proposed path notation. Path/pointer notation
>         was then discussed a fair amount, and slash notation would up
>         being favoured over the dot/bracket notation.  
>         
>         Paul
>         
>         
>         On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 12:06 -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote: 
>         > On 12-09-19 11:27 AM, Francis Galiegue wrote:
>         > > JSON Pointer has been written like this on purpose. It is unambiguous, 
>         > > impervious to programming languages pecularities and encodings... All 
>         > > advantages and none of the drawbacks :) 
>         > It conspicuously lacks the advantage of being familiar for people who 
>         > know JavaScript or JavaScript-based syntaxes like the MongoDB example I 
>         > linked to.
>         > 
>         > That said, I appreciate the response, and I'm just glad the subject has 
>         > been discussed.
>         > 
>         > -Evan
>         > 
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