In your example, how do you distinguish between these?

++   <gt>
++<   gt>
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You don't have to. Both mean:

• No space with ++
• A space on both sides of comparison operators (except for ==)

Valid ++ codes are:

++
<++  # These three
++>  # have the
<++> # same meaning
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So with "++<", the less-than sign is always part of the expression that comes after ++.

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