Yeah, I think they just fascinate me, and I'm still looking for a good use for them in real life.
I haven't had a lot of cases where I was willing to tolerate errors, but I figured in a word game nobody would notice. :)
One other thing to look into if you're using eval() to parse your json data: A couple of years ago, the flickr developer blog observed that building their data structures with string.split() was much faster than parsing the json equivalent with eval(). YMMV on newer browsers.
I haven't had a lot of cases where I was willing to tolerate errors, but I figured in a word game nobody would notice. :)
One other thing to look into if you're using eval() to parse your json data: A couple of years ago, the flickr developer blog observed that building their data structures with string.split() was much faster than parsing the json equivalent with eval(). YMMV on newer browsers.
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/03/18/building-fast-client-...