My 2 cents on the issue:<div><br></div><div>We should have a better forms of meta-programming to solve this sort of issue generally. With the power of first-class functions and laziness, we can get away with a lot of things without meta-programming, but case expression syntax is not first class, so cannot benefit from the flexibility proffered to the rest of the language.</div>

<div><br></div><div>tl;dr give me easily extensible syntax, rather than having to run to GHC devs every time I want a new or different flavor of sugar.</div><div><br clear="all"><div>-- Dan Burton</div></div>