></a> User Guide </h2>


  <h3 class="section"><a name="DEFAULT-OPERATION"></a> The default encoder / decoder </h3>

<p>The basic functionality is provided by the two functions <code class="api-name">encode-json</code> and <code class="api-name">decode-json</code> (all Lisp names in this Manual <!-- except those in the section <a href="#JSON-RPC"><cite>JSON-RPC</cite></a> --> are available in the package <code class="api-name">JSON</code>).  Under the default semantics they implement the following mapping b