[eviks]

> 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" {

[WhyNotHugo]

Perhaps it was a niri-specific thing (although they claim it's KDL), but it rejected simple strings without quotes.

[eviks]

Ah, it was the legacy version of KDL, the current one got rid of this quotation noise