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.
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.
Yeah, sure … just because the fly is black it has to be the fly murdering the butterfly and not the other way round … /j