Many thanks for the example Glen. Unfortunately it does come with strings attached though

It could be rigged to use Devel::Declare to create something like (wordpress will corrupt the line below a little I’m afraid):

my $json = http://transfixedbutnotdead.com->json;

but my gut feel is that this is pushing the boat at a bit too far.

/I3az/

See: http://transfixedbutnotdead.com/2009/12/24/contributing-to-a-project-on-github/ & http://transfixedbutnotdead.com/2009/12/26/couple-of-cpan-pressies/

use Modern::Perl;
use autobox::Core;
use LWP::Simple;
use JSON::Any;
use Data::Dumper;

sub autobox::Core::SCALAR::json {
return JSON::Any->new->from_json( LWP::Simple::get( $_[0] ) ) if $_[0] =~ /^\w+:\//;
}

say Dumper “http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/94882266.json”->json;