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in thread Is the documentation for Perl 5.20 'pack' correct?

Depending on how you display "increasing address space", the values/ordering may appear the other way around.

The OP was using strings and Perl strings (displayed in English) increase addresses to the right.

So, yes, the quoted documentation disagrees with wikipedia.

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Re^3: Is the documentation for Perl 5.20 'pack' correct? (l2r)
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 07, 2015 at 00:09 UTC

    Wikipedia neither agrees nor disagrees with the OP's quote, since the part he quoted makes no sense out of context. 12345678 has no inherent endianness.

    Wikipedia neither agrees nor disagrees with the docs, as it is silent on the value output by perl -V:byteorder.

Re^3: Is the documentation for Perl 5.20 'pack' correct? (r2l)
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 06, 2015 at 21:26 UTC
    'So, yes, the quoted documentation disagrees with wikipedia.'

    And what does that mean?