Hi, The current implementation of showIntAtBase in Numeric is limited to Chars currently. *showIntAtBase* * :: (Integral a, Show a) => a -> (Int -> Char) -> a -> ShowS* The 2 reasons for this constraint is: a) We only accept functions of the form (Int -> Char) b) An implicit concatenation using (:) I'd like to propose a new function showIntAtBaseGeneric that removes the (Int -> Char) function constraint and takes an additional function to replace the implicit (:) operator. *showIntAtBaseGeneric* * :: (Integral a1, Num b, Show a1) =>* * a1 -> (b -> a) -> (a -> s -> s) -> a1 -> s -> s* Now showIntAtBase may be implemented as: *showIntAtBase :: (Integral a, Show a) => a -> (Int -> Char) -> a -> ShowS* *showIntAtBase base toChr n0 r0 = showIntAtBaseGeneric base toChr (:) n0 r0* The API and behavior of showIntAtBase remains unchanged while allowing for generic conversions not limited to Chars alone. *Example: * *λ> showIntAtBaseGeneric 26 id (:) 500 [] -- convert 500 to base26 and provide output as a list.* *[19,6]* Please let me know thoughts/concerns if any to this proposal. Cheers, Vikas