Re: [community-group] Groups and Aliases Specification Updates (#298)

> I'd personally prefer a breaking change that brings both syntaxes on a feature parity level.

@Sidnioulz yeah, I think there's probably a lot of arguments on both sides of this. The proposed `$ref` + JSON pointer syntax gives a common syntax that can replace the syntactic sugar of $extends and curly-brace aliases; I see a future where we might be able to deprecate the syntactic sugar and restrict token authors to $ref + JSON pointers only.

Having both in the short/medium term increases tool complexity a bit, but I think it's a necessary evil to atone for the sin of introducing curly-brace aliases in the earliest versions of the draft without the deep thinking that we're doing now.

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