#162 Extend local label mechanism

[Anonymous]

I've always liked the dotted local label mechanism of NASM, such that

label:
.foo:

becomes a globally accessible symbol "label.foo" but is locally accessible as ".foo".

What I would like even better is a cumulative mechanism, such that

label:
.foo:
..bar:

is globally accessible as "label.foo.bar" and locally as ".foo.bar" and even more locally as ".bar".

Of course some special symbols as "..start" should be reserved identifiers but I consider that only a small issue. How do the developers think about this?

[H. Peter Anvin]

It seems like a reasonable idea to me (although the issue with double-dot as a system prefix will require careful handling.)

However, this is probably not something that is going to get implemented unless patches are contributed.