Decoder.Decode and Unmarshal actually scan the input bytes twice - the
first time to check for syntax errors and the length of the value, and
the second to perform the decoding.
It's in the second scan that we actually tokenize the bytes. Since
syntax errors aren't a possibility, we can take shortcuts.
In particular, literals such as quoted strings are very common in JSON,
so we can avoid a lot of work by special casing them.