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by WhyNotHugo13 hours ago |
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upvoteby nickjj1 hours ago|
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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 ".."
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upvoteby eviks4 hours ago|
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> picky about syntax. I.e.: single word string MUST be quoted.

Seems like the opposite:

Example from kdl website without quotes

package { name my-pkg

Example from scfg with quotes

train "Shinkansen" {

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upvoteby WhyNotHugo4 hours ago|
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Perhaps it was a niri-specific thing (although they claim it's KDL), but it rejected simple strings without quotes.
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upvoteby eviks4 hours ago|
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Ah, it was the legacy version of KDL, the current one got rid of this quotation noise
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