c65 provides pseudo functions .STRING and .IDENT that let you convert a string literal to a symbol and vice versa. Can I do that in 64tass? Things like str, repr and format seem to operate on the *content* of the symbol, whereas I want its name.

e.g. if i have a symbol fubar and I want to generate .text "fubar" or conversely I have a string "fubar" (e.g. in a macro) and want to generate the symbol fubar.

note: the manual mentions macro text references via @1 which seems potentially relevant but this is gated to tasm-compatibility mode where a bunch of tass64 features I'm already using no longer work. But it gave me some hope that there would be some other way to do it in normal mode.

Some progress: progress! some code browsing and experiments with `type` and `repr` helped me start to understand the 64tass type system. if I have code like:

then `foo` has `code` type, and `repr(foo)` uses its address, but the dot operator (mentioned once in passing in the doc) makes `.code` a symbol, and `str(.foo)` gives the literal `"foo"`. I still can't figure out how to go the other way, from the literal to the symbol, but this is enough for what I need. I thought maybe `."foo"` or an explicit `symbol("foo")` but doesn't seem like `symbol` is exposed like that