It’s reasons like this that I want my configuration languages to be explicit and unambiguous. This is why I use JSON or if I want a human friendly format, TOML.

It’s reasons like this that I want my configuration languages to be explicit and unambiguous. This is why I use JSON or if I want a human friendly format, TOML. Strings are always “quoted” and numbers are always unquoted 1.2, it can never accidentally parse one as the other. The convenience of omitting quotes is just not worth the potential for ambiguity or edge cases to me.