Pattern matching in D?

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On Friday, 21 October 2016 at 11:49:42 UTC, Mark wrote:
> On Friday, 21 October 2016 at 06:50:26 UTC, Dennis Ritchie 
> wrote:
>> Previously, there were ideas on the implementation of macros 
>> in D, but now they are no longer relevant:
>> http://s3.amazonaws.com/dconf2007/WalterAndrei.pdf
>
> AST macros are permanently off the table?

Unless you find a way to convince Walter and Andrei that its not 
gonna result in everyone defining their own sub-language within 
D, making D code harder to read for others and/or have good 
reasons for things they enable that currently cannot be done 
(read: have rather ugly and laborious/error-prone workarounds or 
simply no workarounds at all while being desirable things to want 
to do).

At least as far as I remember those were the main points they 
were on about :o)