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Comment by bsimpson

`/` is a weird choice of delimiter for JSON.

Since JSON is a subset of JS, I would have expected `.` to be the delimiter. That jives with how people think of JSON structures in code. (Python does require bracket syntax for traversing JSON, but even pandas uses dots when you generate a dataframe from JSON.)

When I see `/`, I think:

- "This spec must have been written by backend people," and

- "I wonder if there's some relative/absolute path ambiguity they're trying to solve by making all the paths URLs."

parent bsimpson 2 years ago

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