Add some type checking of configs #4000
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Before, the types were not checked and just expected. The old behavior
would cause lots of tracebacks, or, much worse, convert things like:
into a definition of each of the letters as macros that expand to
nothing, causing massive compilation problems.
I resolved this by adding some type checking to the config data. Now
there is a type check for most of the fields within a library and
application configurations.
resolves #3985
Testing