- From: Travis Spomer via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:00:37 +0000
- To: public-design-tokens-log@w3.org
I've been working on building tooling for tokens at Microsoft for a couple of years now, and one of my biggest gripes with Style Dictionary today is how they used `value` instead of `$value`. If you're writing a tool for token authoring, what do you do if someone tries to name one `value`? Put up a message in red that says "Sorry, you're not allowed to use that word?" Keeping `type` as a reserved word feels even worse since "type" is a common word that designers use when referring to text styles.
I'm very much in favor of prefixed keywords like `$value` and `$type`. I'm not sure I follow why it's harder to use those from JavaScript code—`$` is an allowed character in JavaScript identifiers.
```js
const tokens = { red: { $value: "#ff0000ff" } }
console.log(tokens.red.$value)
```
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