phaedrus explained why use an infix operator, but why specially the shift operator? My guess: because it has very low precedence, allowing stuff like: > cout

phaedrus explained why use an infix operator, but why specially the shift operator? My guess: because it has very low precedence, allowing stuff like: > cout << a + b * c << " is the result\n"; Instead of: > cout << (a + b * c) << " is the result\n";