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

How about using F# quotations?

http://tomasp.net/blog/fsquotations.aspx

Answer 2

Have you looked at Boo? While Boo doesn't have macros, it has an open compiler pipeline, which is a good alternative to macros for syntactic metaprogramming.

[EDIT] As noted in the comments, Boo does have macros now.

Answer 3

There are two actively developed Lisps for .net

IronScheme - DLR based scheme implementation

Xronos - DLR based port of clojure

Answer 4

Recently I have been hearing whisper about F#, I tried to look at the documentation if I could find anything about macro support, but haven't found it. So does anyone know?

F# does not support macros and it is unlikely that it ever will.

Answer 5

Nemerle, at http://nemerle.org/ , is a .NET language (also supporting mono) that supports a lot of of the functional programming paradigm while staying visually close to C#. It has extensive macro support.