macro support in F#

Question

After reading Practical Common Lisp I finally understood what the big deal about macros was, and I have been looking for a language for the .NET platform that supports this.

Answer 1

but good horrors the syntax in those ocaml examples looks obscure

There you're running into the same fundamental syntactic trade-off you do with Lisp. If you want the power of lisp-like macros, you tend to either end up with lisp-like syntax for the language, or else your macro syntax looks quite different from your regular syntax... nothing wrong with either approach, just different choices