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.

program comparisonDemo(input, output, stderr);

type
	size = (tiny, small, medium, large, huge);

var
	n, m: longint;
	c, d: char;

begin
	// of course, integers can be compared
	n :=  2;
	m := -2;
	
	if n > m then
	begin
		writeLn(n, ' > ', m);
	end;
	
	// also enumerative types can be ordered
	if huge > medium then
	begin
		writeLn('huge is greater than medium');
	end;
	
	// but the constants true and false are also comparable
	if true > false then
	begin
		writeLn('true is greater than false');
	end;
	
	// characters stay in a relation to each other, too
	// (result depends on the used character set)
	c := 'a';
	d := 'Z';
	
	if c > d then
	begin
		writeLn(c, ' > ', d);
	end;
end.

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

program comparisonSignedDemo(input, output, stderr);

var
	n: int64;
	m: qword;

begin
	n := -1; // n stored as %111...111
	m :=  2; // m stored as %000...010
	
	// signed comparison
	if n > m then
	begin
		writeLn(n, ' > ', m);
	end;
	
	// "unsigned" comparison
	if qword(n) > m then
	begin
		writeLn('qword(', n, ') > ', m);
	end;
end.

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 >.