Yesterday I got caught in other things and unfortunately fell off the train of thought a bit; I was deep in the process of untangling this mess, and now I feel like I need to load it all back into my brain. My goal was to finish this by today, but it’s looking like that might not happen.

That last shower thought that I left off on was that, if I shift the “relative only” instructions from the assembler to some other layer, that would mean that everything can render to legal “symbol” format, with hash identifiers. This would simplify the system because all assembly and symbol compilation could follow the same process of recursive symbol rendering.