30 Jul
2012
30 Jul
'12
6:27 a.m.
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Richard Cobbe
This is annoying because all of the Unicode charts give the code points in hex, and indeed the charts are split into different PDFs at numbers that are nice and round in hex but not in decimal. So in order to figure out which character I'm looking at, I have to convert back to hex and then look it up in the charts.
My reading of the Haskell 98 report is that the Show instance for Char *could* use hex escapes, so this is a compiler choice. If there isn't a good reason for this choice, perhaps GHC could change? --Max