From: alex@nospicedham.rivadpm.com   
      
   On 31-Dec-18 12:53, R.Wieser wrote:   
   > Alex,   
   >   
   >> With all the messages buried in the source stream, managing them becomes   
   >> difficult at scale or if multiple target languages are to be supported.   
   >   
   > If an assembler can manage labels just fine over multiple sourcefiles,   
   > multiple non-overlapping segments and for structures and even can ceep track   
   > changes in emitted code because of opcode changes depending on the distance   
   > to the target label than I have no doubt that something simple as keeping   
   > track of a few "at use" declared static(!) strings will not be much of a   
   > problem either.   
      
   Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. The problem is the programmer's, not   
   the assembler's. The languages I mean are human ones.   
      
   >   
   >> Labels aren't text messages. There are several use cases for the =X   
   >> operand here.   
   >   
   > You're again jumping to a fully other language / environment and how it   
   > work(s|ed) there.   Try to stay here, and with what the OP asked for.   
      
   You'll need to be clearer here. I'm not understanding how discussing the   
   the OP's assembler and its literal string =B feature is "jumping to a   
   fully other language".   
      
   >   
   >> labels don't in general need any management.   
   >   
   > As shown in the above, I think differently.   In *general* they need quite a   
   > bit.   Only in fringe cases they need none.   
      
   Generally I wouldn't expect to translate the labels from something to   
   English or Spanish or German or French when internationalising an app. I   
   would do that for the static text in the app.   
      
   Which is where we came in. Used sparingly, =B strings are fine. I   
   wouldn't use beyond a handful because it's more difficult to manage   
   inlined messages at scale.   
      
      
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   Alex   
      
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