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Not quite a part of "Java culture". See Roslyn compiler, .NET Expression tree, C++ `std::visit` or tons of DOM tree rewriting js stuff.

Actually `visitor` and `pattern matching` are not mutually exclusive. imo the only difference is that in the visitor pattern, if you don't have anything to update, you just return the original node.

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Thank you! I agree that just using of pattern matching may be not enough. But, instead of Visitor Pattern, I would use generic traversal "strategies" (combinators). My ideal is a DSL with first-class term rewriting rules + user definable strategies which take these rules as arguments. In fact, I already use such DSL for compiler writing :)

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