encoding/json: more tests to cover decoding edge cases

encoding/json: more tests to cover decoding edge cases

The overall coverage of the json package goes up from 90.8% to 91.3%.

While at it, apply two minor code simplifications found while inspecting
the HTML coverage report.

Change-Id: I0fba968afeedc813b1385e4bde72d93b878854d7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/134735
Run-TryBot: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>