Proposal for a generic showIntAtBase

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2015, Vikas Menon wrote:

> 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.

That is, you want to decompose a number into digits of an arbitrary base? 
I would not associate that with "show". I have implemented this in some 
flavors:
    https://hackage.haskell.org/package/numeric-prelude-0.4.2/docs/Algebra-IntegralDomain.html#v:decomposeVarPositional
    decomposePositional in
       http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/htam/src/NumberTheory.hs