Anyone know how to make JSON::XS more tolerant?

JSON::XS has a "relaxed" mode (F_RELAXED in the XS code). Currently, it allows:

• lists with a final comma (as in Perl)
• Shell-style comments (from # to end of line) where JSON allowes white space

This looks like a proper way to allow unquoted keys and the like, you "just" have to modify the XS code.

The one thing that really drives me mad is the shell-style comment. Why on earth would someone want shell comments in JSON? JSON is derived from Javascript, and it is designed to be evaluateable by current browsers. Javascript has inherited its comment syntax from C and C++, i.e. // for single line comments and /* */ for comment blocks. I would like to see those comments supported by JSON::XS. No browser understands shell comments, so they should be removed.

A different approach could be a subclass that uses the incremental parsing feature.

Alexander