There is some very cool language design work from Chinawat Isradisaikul and Andrew C. Myers at Cornell on adding very powerful matching constructs to a Java-lik

There is some very cool language design work from Chinawat Isradisaikul and Andrew C. Myers at Cornell on adding very powerful matching constructs to a Java-like language. Paper: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~chinawat/papers/pldi13-p343-isradisaikul.pdf http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~chinawat/papers/pldi13-p343-israd... Slides: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~chinawat/papers/chin-pldi13-slides.pdf http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~chinawat/papers/chin-pldi13-slide...