Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes

[Roel Schroeven]

moogyd at yahoo.co.uk schreef:
> Hi,
> I need to define some configuration in a file that will be manually created.
> Internally, the data will be stored as a dict, which contains various properties related to a design
> e.g. Design Name, dependencies, lists of files (and associated libraries).
> json seemed a quick an easy way of achieving this
> Anyway, in simple terms my question - if I know everything is a string, how can I omit the quotation marks?
> 
> The problem is that I don't want to make users have to type redundant characters.
> Is it possible?

Not in JSON. Maybe you could try YAML?

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