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Perl 6
WITCH lpointy: Revision 2
Mnemonicsarrowhead, less than, sideways V for "values" Used alone< as an infix operator performs a comparison Used as a brace pair or quote pair<> is shorthand for the qw quoted array constructor, providing string context (and often in this capacity for pair composers e.g. :key<value>) Operators containing this character
<= is a less than or equal comparison Other uses<< can be used as a "Texas Quote", a substitute for « (left french quote) 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 ?< |