in reply to Is there a problem with using barewords as filehandles ?

Parsing rules come to mind, the diamond operator <> does both readline and glob and must use heuristics to decide.

I had cases comparing two functions with < leading to a compile error, because "the closing > was missing"

UPDATE
see Disabling the interpretation of diamond <> operator in package?

Cheers Rolf
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