[woodrowbarlow]

this is a tradeoff so that ini/toml can avoid braces and whitespace rules, which is actually a win for (non-programmer) human usability. to most users, fixing an "unbalanced braces" error is "programming", especially since that's exactly the kind of error that parsers can't give useful advice for in the error message.

the tradeoff is that your most general top-level settings must come before your category-specific settings, which is usually a pretty natural layout anyway.