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Andrei Alexandrescu:

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The IamA is going well.

Regarding this answer of yours:

>Of the usual suspects present in FP languages, D notably misses pattern matching. It is in tension with OOP-style (first match vs. best match), and I'm not sure whether or not it's a fundamental feature of functional style. There are no plans to add such at this time.<

Adding a full pattern matching to D seems a bit much, but I think there are means to significantly increase the power of the D "final switch" with a limited amount of added complexity. The idea is to support switching on structs, something like the "unapply" standard struct/class method copied from Scala and perhaps variable binding.

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