Comment by nickjj

It is picky, but picky is good. It's explicit which creates uniformity.

For example with niri, if you forget quotes on a string value, you get this error.

    $ niri validate
    Error:   × error loading config
      ├─▶ error parsing
      ╰─▶ error parsing KDL

    Error:   × identifiers cannot be used as arguments
        ╭─[config.kdl:42:1]
     42 │         // Disable acceleration.
     43 │         accel-profile flat
        ·                       ──┬─
        ·                         ╰── unexpected identifier
     44 │     }
        ╰────
      help: consider enclosing in double quotes ".."