One of the reasons I asked: I was wondering if Haskell already had a library that would take an Int/Integer and convert it to the string representations of other bases; or if this was a chore that still needed to be taken care of by someone. I found the Numeric module, but then see that all relevant functions return this weird "ShowS" instead of a String. So... is that how everyone likes it? Or is there another module people use for base conversion...?
I think it isn't used often enough for anyone to bother reworking it, especially since you can sidestep the ShowS stuff by invoking e.g. (showHex myNum "") which nets you an ordinary String. (Parse this as ((showHex myNum) ""), where (showHex myNum) produces a ShowS (function from String to String) which is then applied to ("").) You could also cheat if you have something to append to the result of (showHex) by passing that instead of ("").
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