> There is something strange about the Haskell'98 Numeric library,
> which I think could be considered a bug of sorts. There are functions
>
> readDec, readOct, readHex :: (Integral a) => ReadS a
>
> which read an integer from a string in base 10, 8, or 16, but there
> are no corresponding show functions to convert an integer to a string
> using base 8 or 16. The sole function given is
>
> showInt :: (Integral a) => a -> ShowS
>
> which shows a number in base 10 only. I think you'll agree that it
> is odd that you can read a certain number format but cannot show it?
Yes indeed. GHC and Hugs have showHex, showOct, showBin and
showIntAtBase in NumExts:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/sec-numexts.html
Cheers,
Simon
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