class='arg-name'>stream</span>
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<p class='docstring'>
Read a JSON <span class='json'>Value</span> from <span class='arg-name'>stream</span> and return the corresponding Lisp value.
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<p>If <code class="arg-name">stream</code> is omitted it defaults to <code class="other-name">*json-output*</code> for the encoder, <code class="other-name">*json-input*</code> for the decoder.  The initial values of these variables are synonym streams to <code class="other-name">*standard-output*</co