<div dir="ltr">Not an expert, don't even do much in this area much these days. Historically, I have seen a number of REST URL API patterns, more often then not (when these things were less tepid than they are now) in the Semantic Web area (e.g. MS OData) where parens, which as I recall is allowed by the RFC, are lifted to distinguished delimiters in the URI template. But REST, HTTP APIs. et al have seen their heyday and shall remain Web-centric remnants. 5 years from now I doubt any newly minted mobile device centric TCP/IP Internet APIs will be based on REST, HTTP and URIs. But my crystal ball tends to be foggier than even most.<div>
<br></div><div>Frankly I doubt you would break anything in the Racket ecosystem if you did it. Personally, I'd not do it solely on the merit of copy/paste easing. I have felt the pain in the opposite direction where a browser or tool has somewhat arbitrarily gone out of the way to escape parens when I'm trying to cut/paste and I've had to restore them. So FWIW, -1.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Eli Barzilay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org" target="_blank">eli@barzilay.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Just now, David Vanderson wrote:<br>
> No guru here, but my experience has been that every url encoder is<br>
> slightly different - I don't think there's a broad consensus on edge<br>
> cases. I'd say go for it.<br>
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</div>The problem is not just being different from others, it's the<br>
possibility of old code breaking...<br>
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