Please support octal numerics in assembler

[Dronezilla]

It's currently possible to write numeric literals in binary, decimal or hexadecimal, but not octal (base 8). This makes it cumbersome to program some of the vintage computer architectures of the 1950s and 60s which often used 6- or 9-bit bytes and 12- or 18-bit addresses, for which octal is a more natural representation. Most programming languages allow octal numerics by prefixing the number either with a zero or 0o, and that would help immensely here.

[vapula]

Looks like someone plans to implement the PDP-8 on VCB :-)

I agree in that octal support could be great and it should not be a major change in the code...