Possible bug/omission in Numeric library?

[Simon Marlow]

> There is something strange about the Haskell'98 Numeric library,
> which I think could be considered a bug of sorts.  There are functions
>=20
>     readDec, readOct, readHex :: (Integral a) =3D> ReadS a
>=20
> which read an integer from a string in base 10, 8, or 16, but there
> are no corresponding show functions to convert an integer to a string
> using base 8 or 16.  The sole function given is
>=20
>     showInt :: (Integral a) =3D> a -> ShowS
>=20
> which shows a number in base 10 only.  I think you'll agree that it
> is odd that you can read a certain number format but cannot show it?

Yes indeed. GHC and Hugs have showHex, showOct, showBin and
showIntAtBase in NumExts:

	http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/sec-numexts.html

Cheers,
	Simon