Other reasons to not want types happening during parse time: - “modified” numbers, e.g. $50, 35%, 1.2345568896347853246863477 - Dates. If your language tries

Other reasons to not want types happening during parse time: - “modified” numbers, e.g. $50, 35%, 1.2345568896347853246863477 - Dates. If your language tries to convert a date to Unix time or Julian Day, you can have problems with time zones or distant or historical dates. - strings vs symbols. The person writing config shouldn’t have to care about this distinction. - Automatic deduplication for fields of objects can be a problem.