Re: Possible bug/omission in Numeric library?

As you say, we can't change the type of showInt. I suppose we could add:

showIntAtBase :: Integral a=20 =3D> a -- base -> (a -> Char) -- digit to char -> a -- number to show. -> ShowS

showOct, showHex :: Integral a =3D> a -> ShowS

Q1: But would we really want showDec too? Identical to existing showInt?

I only suggested it for consistency of naming. However, since showInt is not the dual of readInt, we can't have consistency anyway. Regards, Malcolm