Mnemonics

"arrow", "greater", sideways "V" for "values"

Used alone

• > as an infix operator performs a comparison

Used as a brace pair or quote pair

• See < left pointy

Operators containing this character

• >= is also a comparison. Note this means there is no assignment mutation.
• ~> +> and ?> right bitwise shifts
• => "fat arrow" pair constructor
• p5=> the perl5 compatibility fat arrow
• => or =>> a feed operator
• -> introduces a pointy block
• - -> used to specify return type in a Signature

Used inside a regexe

• )> the end of a result

Other uses

• >> can be used as a "Texas Quote", a substitute for » in environments where unicode source code is undesireable

Old, deprecated, or other language uses

• >> is bitwise shift in many languages including perl5. That is now +>, ~>, or ?>
• -> is no longer the method operator as in perl5. That is now . like most other languages.
• => behaves differently in perl6 compared to perl5.