Transfer: added support for disjunctive patterns.

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+Some features of the Transfer language:
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+* Purely functional
+* Dependent types
+* Eager evaluation
+* Generalized algebraic datatypes
+* Metavariables
+* Records with subtyping
+* Overloading by explicit dictionary passing
+* Pattern matching by case expressions
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+Additional features in the front-end language:
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+* Disjunctive patterns
+* do-notation
+* Hidden arguments (not implemented yet)
+* Automatic derivation of some operations on user-defined GADTs:
+  - Compositional maps and folds
+  - Equality
+  - Ordering
+  - Showing
+* Pattern equations
+* Operator syntax for common functions, most are overloaded