# Copyright (C) 2011, Parrot Foundation.

# This is the start to rewrite JSON. It starts with rewriting data_json only.
# data_json depends on the PGE. The rewrite use parrot-nqp.

=head1 NAME

JSON, a lightweight data-interchange format.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The C<from_json> method return a PMC that contains the data structure for
a given valid JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) string. For example:

    .sub 'main' :main
         .local pmc result

        load_language 'JSON'
        result = from_json( '[1,2,3]' )

        load_bytecode 'dumper.pbc'
        _dumper( result, 'JSON' )
    .end

To generate a JSON representation of a PMC, see
L<runtime/parrot/library/JSON.pir>.

For more information about the structure of the JSON representation, see
the documentation at L<http://www.json.org/>.

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