• homo_ignotus@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Why use JSON Pointer? We already have structured data (JSON), so what’s wrong with ["biscuits", 0, "name"] instead of "biscuits/0/name"? This sidesteps the escaping problem.

    And the reason is clearly not brevity, given the rest of the spec.