Using older versions of octave (5.2.0), I could easily add two numbers in hex format

octave: 1> 0x1122334455 + 0x1122
0x112233446677

In newest version at the time (11.1.0), same command gives below error:

error: binary operator '+' not implemented for 'uint32 scalar' by 'uint16 scalar' operations

Is there a way to enable automatic casting between integers? Or is there a way to consider hex numbers as float?

I use octave CLI as everyday calculator and work a lot with hex numbers. It is annoying to manually cast numbers each time. This is holding me back from using newer Octave versions.