# Why doesn't Mojo have struct pattern (destructuring)? Just wondering

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**Created:** [September 19, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/why-doesnt-mojo-have-struct-pattern-destructuring-just-wondering/3509 "2026-09-19T19:01:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![BoldCrane38](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@BoldCrane38](https://forum.modular.com/u/BoldCrane38)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/why-doesnt-mojo-have-struct-pattern-destructuring-just-wondering/3509/1 "2026-09-19T19:01:06Z")

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Why doesn’t Mojo have struct pattern (destructuring)? Just wondering

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**Author:** ![clattner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.modular.com/clattner/32/201_2.png) [@clattner](https://forum.modular.com/u/clattner)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.modular.com/t/why-doesnt-mojo-have-struct-pattern-destructuring-just-wondering/3509/2 "2026-09-20T01:38:25Z")

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It is a work in progress that hasn’t fully landed. We aim to get pattern matching (including struct field matching) into the Mojo 1.2 release, but that is just a goal, not a promise 🙂

> <https://github.com/modular/modular/blob/main/Mojo/proposals/pattern-matching.md>