Assembler: a string that spells an instruction is no longer assembled as one

A token is classified after its quotes have been stripped, so a string
literal reading "ADD" looked exactly like the ADD instruction and was
assembled as one. It failed with "attempting to assemble outside the
Program Segment", a message about a mistake nobody had made.

The literal and label checks were already guarded against strings and the
instruction check was not. Mnemonics match without regard to case, so
"or" and "and" were caught by this too, and those are ordinary enough
words to want in a message.

Third of its family, after a string beginning with '0' being read as a
malformed number and a string in the Program Segment being silently
discarded. All three have the same root.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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; A string whose text spells an instruction.
;
; The quotes are gone by the time the assembler looks at a token, so a string reading "ADD"
; used to be assembled as the ADD instruction - which failed with "attempting to assemble
; outside the Program Segment", a message about a mistake nobody had made. Mnemonics match
; without regard to case, so "or" and "and" were caught by it too, and those are ordinary
; enough words to want in a message.
;
; Correct output is:
; ADD OR and NOP
#Include console.asm
#Program
start:
SETD.0 First
CALL printString
CALL blank
SETD.0 Second
CALL printString
CALL blank
SETD.0 Third
CALL printString
CALL blank
SETD.0 Fourth
CALL printString
CALL newLine
HALT
blank:
INIA 0x20
OUTA 0x00
RET
#Data
First:
"ADD"
Second:
"OR"
Third:
"and"
Fourth:
"NOP"
#Vectors
Boot start