We decided to go with 'var' as a distributive pattern introducer which applies to bare identifiers within the subpattern. For example, 'var (a, b)' and '(var a, var b)' would be equivalent patterns. To model this, give 'var' its own AST node with a subpattern and remove the introducer loc from NamedPattern.
Swift SVN r5824
I talked to John about parsing patterns today, and because of the magnitude of name-lookup-dependent ambiguities between patterns and expressions, we agreed that at least for a first-pass implementation it makes sense to parse patterns as extensions of the expr grammar and charge name binding with distinguishing patterns from expressions. This gets us out of needing the concept of an "unresolved pattern", at least in the short term.
Swift SVN r5808
A single case block can have one or more 'case ...:' labels. 'case' labels contain patterns instead of exprs. 'default:' is a funny spelling for 'case _:'. Change the CaseStmt representation and rip out all the parsing, type-checking, and SILGen built off the old representation.
Swift SVN r5795
Introduce Pattern subclasses for the 'is T', 'T(<pattern>)', and '<expr>' pattern syntaxes we'll be introducing for pattern-matching "switch" statements. Also add an 'UnresolvedCalLPattern' to act as an intermediate for name lookup to resolve to a nominal type, oneof element, or function call expression pattern. Since we'll need to be able to rewrite patterns like we do expressions, add setters to AST nodes that contain references to subpatterns. Implement some basic walking logic in places we search patterns for var decls, but punt on any more complex type-checking or SILGen derived from these nodes until we actually use them.
Swift SVN r5780
