[hokus]

this is something between a joke and a thought experiment.

    function cason(x){
    switch(x[0]){
      case "movie": switch(x[1]) {
        case "name"       : return "Interstellar";
        case "year"       : return 2014;
        case "is_released": return true;
        case "director"   : return "Christopher Nolan";
        case "cast": switch(x[2]){
          case 0: return "Matthew McConaughey";
          case 1: return "Anne Hathaway";
          case 2: return "Jessica Chastain";
          case 3: return "Bill Irwin";
          case 4: return "Ellen Burstyn";
          case 5: return "Michael Caine";
        }
      }
    }
    }

[geofft]

Well, that's kind of the inverse of writing switch statements like

    def license(kernel):
        return {"Linux": "GPL",
                "FreeBSD": "BSD",
                "NT": "Proprietary"}[kernel]