The only thing about the JSON package though, when things go wrong, it is very unhelpful about where it goes wrong. I usually end up always wrapping the json_d

The only thing about the JSON package though, when things go wrong, it is very unhelpful about where it goes wrong. I usually end up always wrapping the json_decode in an eval to catch the error and handle it in an easier to understand fashion. But I agree though, its nice how json and perl data objects pretty much map to each other. It's great.