Re: When Is A High/Low-Level Language Not A High/Low-Level Language?

Here’s a little bit of Python code, from <https://gitlab.com/ldo/inotipy>:
 
    info_type = infoptr.contents.info_type
    infoptr = ct.cast \
      (
        infoptr,
        ct.POINTER
          (
            {
                FANOTIFY.EVENT_INFO_TYPE_FID : FANOTIFY.event_info_fid,
                FANOTIFY.EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID_NAME : FANOTIFY.event_info_fid,
                FANOTIFY.EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID : FANOTIFY.event_info_fid,
                FANOTIFY.EVENT_INFO_TYPE_PIDFD : FANOTIFY.event_info_pidfd,
                FANOTIFY.EVENT_INFO_TYPE_ERROR : FANOTIFY.event_info_error,
            }[info_type]
          )
      )
 
That’s a conditional cast, based on a common header field, to the
appropriate struct type for that data block.
 
That’s not just a switch-expression, it’s a switch-expression
returning a type.