Dear haskell-cafe, I've read in Reddit that pattern synonyms have been merged in GHC HEAD [ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1vpaey/pattern_synonyms_merged_into... ]. I would like to know whether associated patterns, that is, patterns which come under the umbrella of a type class, have also been implemented. I think that associated patterns would fill the gap in difference of features between type classes and common data types. For plain data types, you can declare both functions and patterns (either via constructors or now via pattern synonyms). However, you can only declare functions (either term-level or type-level) in type classes. This means that the pattern match mechanism, very useful to get clear code, is not useful if you want to use type classes. Alejandro.