Metadata Key Name Ambiguity

[jillesme]

At the end of the spec, there is a section around metadata. It has a field "The key name." which has no further description.

Are these valid key names?

• Location
• My Favorite Location
• 199
• cfb3f801-91b4-4307-af17-bb09f9a7c235
• 🧠🥹
• https://link

[johnnydecimal]

I’d probably lean towards copying whatever The Popular Languages do, as they’ve thought about it more than I have.

JSON seems like a sensible baseline given the likelihood that one might encode one’s JD index using it?

https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/object

So, any string is my suggestion.

• ✅ Location
• ✅ My Favorite Location
• ❌ 199 but ✅ “199”
• ✅ cfb3f801-91b4-4307-af17-bb09f9a7c235
• ❌ 🧠🥹
• ✅ https://link/

This is not my field of expertise and I’m happy to be overridden by actual programmers. Pragmatism should rule here: what’s the simplest to encode, what causes the least issues, what’s going to be annoying or unexpected, etc.