More intuitive syntax for "if case"

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[Pitch] is case expressions

I'm sorry for leaving you hanging for so long. The Language Steering Group talked about this proposal. We agree that there's a lot of room for improvement in this part of the language, and this specific proposal seems to be high-quality: it is thorough and well thought out. Nevertheless, we don't feel comfortable running proposals in the general space of pattern matching at the moment, because we don't feel like we have a good understanding of where the language ought to be going. We therefo…