Towards better serialization

[Brian Goetz]

> i'm taking about the semantics here and like you i'm using a Java like syntax to explain my point,
> this is an extractor, it's a method

No -- extractors are not methods.

In any case, this is not the appropriate time or place to discuss the 
surfacing of patterns in the language syntax now.  I know you've been 
wanting to have this discussion for a long time, but we're not there 
yet.  I'm working on it.