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@@ -296,9 +296,9 @@ keyword resolves against the expected type and against nothing else, so two enum
 could always share a member spelling. What the prefix buys is the call site read
 on its own.
 
-** TODO ML-style patterns
-Wanted: nested destructuring (data cases, structs, arrays, slices), guards, or-patterns,
-literals at any depth, and exhaustiveness checked over the nesting. Needs a design pass.
+** WAIT ML-style patterns
+Held 2026-09-25 as a future direction, like the JS backend: nested destructuring,
+guards, or-patterns, literals at any depth, exhaustiveness over the nesting.
 
 ** NEXT match over numbers and strings
 Decided 2026-09-25: a match arm's pattern can be an integer, a float, a char or a