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LISA supports two types of local labels: Symbolic and non-symbolic.
Non-symbolic are *marginally* better than ORCA/Merlins.  They take the
form


		beq	>0	;Go to next ^0 label
		bcs	<9	;Go to previous ^9 label.

There is no restrictions on intervening symbolic labels.

LISA also allows you to declare the scope of a label using LBL and RLS
E.g.,

		lcl	lbl1, lbl2, lbl3, lbl4
		 .
    		 .
		 .
		rls	lbl1, lbl2
		 .
		 .
		 .
		rls	lbl3, lbl4

the labels lbl1..lbl4 are local until encountering the rls directive.
Lets you control the scope of the labels within the source code.