[monk_the_dog]

Pattern matching is on many people's radar, including the "Direction Group" (See: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p093...). This proposal was discussed at the committee meeting last month: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p137... I'd love to see it standardized in 23, but I have no idea how likely that is. (It definately won't be in c++-20, which is now closed except for tweaks).