I think you may be misinterpreting my exhaustion -- I certainly agree that things have meaning. They have such a meaning that we standardize them. Thanks to

I think you may be misinterpreting my exhaustion -- I certainly agree that things have meaning. They have such a meaning that we standardize them. Thanks to the standardization and proliferation of the technology, there's generally an obvious correct choice, and a few poor arguments for others. In other words, it's generally not hard to make these things follow the Principle of Least Astonishment[0]. Every now and then there might be an interesting constraint that makes for a different choice (e.g., don't store zip code as an integer, because it may have a leading zero). The amount of verbose discussion that I observe any time rest semantics come up still baffles me. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...