Hi!
In fact, we might want to be slightly more general. Why don't go for
a general base conversion, much like Malcolms idea but without converting
every digit to a Char. Say something like
toBase :: (Integral a) => a -> a -> [a]
toBase base n
| n < 0 = error "Numeric.toBase: can't convert negative numbers"
| otherwise = theDigits n []
where theDigits n r = let (n',d) = quotRem n base
r' = d : r
in if n' == 0 then r' else theDigits n' r'
Then the showInt function becomes
showInt :: (Integral a) => a -> (Int->Char) -> a -> ShowS
showInt base intToDig n r = foldr (\ i r -> intToDig (fromIntegral i) : r)
r
(toBase base n)
but we can also use toBase by itself. We could also have an analogous
fromBase, of course.
Cheers,
/kff
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