Ticket #3058: Add 'hex' to the pretty package (and other thoughts)

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 17:16 -0800, Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 12:55 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 01:53 -0800, Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3058
> > There are a number of other functions from the Numeric module we should
> > also consider. These are all the ones that return ShowS, the equivalent
> > of the Doc type.
> 
> I've added another patch to that ticket for consideration.  It has hex,
> oct, intAtBase  (plus padded variants).  Also included are {e,f,g}float
> without any padding options.
> 
> Padding floats could be touchy - perhaps it should be a separate patch
> by someone who would use such a feature and know what they want.
> 
> Thoughts?

Presumably it would be uncontroversial for the float ones to behave the
same as the ones from the existing Numeric module.

Duncan