David Feuer authored Oct 01, 2014 and Joachim Breitner committed Oct 01, 2014

Summary: Using `dropWhileEndLE` tends to be faster and easier to read
than the `reverse . dropWhile p . reverse` idiom. This also cleans up
some other, nearby, messes. Fix #9616 (incorrect number formatting
potentially leading to incorrect numbers in output).

Test Plan: Run validate

Reviewers: thomie, rwbarton, nomeata, austin

Reviewed By: nomeata, austin

Subscribers: simonmar, ezyang, carter, thomie

Projects: #ghc

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D259

GHC Trac Issues: #9623, #9616

Conflicts:
	compiler/basicTypes/OccName.lhs