Hello Rowan thanks for participating. My answer for your comments would be:
=== Regarding JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR === I think is a valid point from your side, and I am open to change the implementation if the maintainers believe so. I leave it there as it existed in json_decode() and wanted to give the developer the option to use it or not. But as I said, you hae a valid point, that I also like. === Regarding the examples you mentioned === The one from humhub and Symfony http-kernel, yes you are right, I will take them out from the RFC right now. Nice catch. But the Magento one, I took a look again, and I still believe is right example, because the only reason is using json_decode() for, is to validate only. Am I missing something here? Regards. RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/json_validate Implementation: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/9399
