All the answers have been good. I am somewhat provoked (in the good sense of forcing me to think) by Siemen who sort of think of it as a code-smell.
Best, Kasper > On 26 Feb 2022, at 17.14, Siemen Baader <siemenbaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Kasper, > > perhaps not what you are asking, but I find that this kind of nesting happens > to me when parsing serialized data (web page sources or JSON as in your > example). For me, the root cause of the problem is that these data structures > are not represented by real classes in my code. I often start with what you > are showing in a Playground, but then refactor it into specific parsers for > the web sites I am scraping. The parsing selectors go into classes that > mirror the parts of the data I am interested in. I find this to be more > declarative and maintainable, and more natural in the Pharo environment with > its browsers and code extractors. > > I hope this is of any use :)
