Greater than

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>

In ASCII, the character code decimal 62 (or hexadecimal 3E) is defined to be > (greater-than sign).

comparison operator

true greater than

The greater than symbol > is used to compare whether the value on the left side of the symbol, exceeds that of the value to the right side of the symbol. The expression results in a boolean value.

 1program comparisonDemo(input, output, stderr);
 2
 3type
 4	size = (tiny, small, medium, large, huge);
 5
 6var
 7	n, m: longint;
 8	c, d: char;
 9
10begin
11	// of course, integers can be compared
12	n :=  2;
13	m := -2;
14	
15	if n > m then
16	begin
17		writeLn(n, ' > ', m);
18	end;
19	
20	// also enumerative types can be ordered
21	if huge > medium then
22	begin
23		writeLn('huge is greater than medium');
24	end;
25	
26	// but the constants true and false are also comparable
27	if true > false then
28	begin
29		writeLn('true is greater than false');
30	end;
31	
32	// characters stay in a relation to each other, too
33	// (result depends on the used character set)
34	c := 'a';
35	d := 'Z';
36	
37	if c > d then
38	begin
39		writeLn(c, ' > ', d);
40	end;
41end.

All ordinal types can be compared to values of the same type. Integers can be compared to any integer.

 1program comparisonSignedDemo(input, output, stderr);
 2
 3var
 4	n: int64;
 5	m: qword;
 6
 7begin
 8	n := -1; // n stored as %111...111
 9	m :=  2; // m stored as %000...010
10	
11	// signed comparison
12	if n > m then
13	begin
14		writeLn(n, ' > ', m);
15	end;
16	
17	// "unsigned" comparison
18	if qword(n) > m then
19	begin
20		writeLn('qword(', n, ') > ', m);
21	end;
22end.

greater than or equal to

If the greater than symbol is followed by an equal sign >=, the comparison also results in true if both operands are equal to each other.

bit shift operator

Two consecutive greater-than signs >> act as the shr operator.

template list

In generic type definitions the template list is delimited by a closing >.