On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:08 AM, James M Snell <jasnell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Everyone's idea of "bloat" is different. What I meant was that the predicate additions increase the size of the protocol messages. Your example is twice as large. The check could be more efficiently represented in the path notation or the operation names. > Again, the point is, I don't see this as a problem in practice. Implementers > that make blind edits to arbitrary docs can expect surprising results > sometimes. That's just the way it is. There are mechanisms defined (test, > json-predicates and conditional requests) that can make the edit more > reliable. Well, one way of putting it would be that the patch format makes it difficult to ensure convergence at quiescence in OT software when there's a change in type from array to object or vice-versa: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation#The_CC_model> There's no good reason for it to be that way, is there? - Rob