In Operators§

See primary documentation in context for term < >

The quote-words construct breaks up the contents on whitespace and returns a List of the words. If a word looks like a number literal or a Pair literal, it's converted to the appropriate number.

say <a b c>[1];   # OUTPUT: «b␤»

In Operators§

See primary documentation in context for postcircumfix < >

Shortcut for postcircumfix { } that quotes its argument using the same rules as the quote-words operator of the same name.

my %color = kiwi => "green", banana => "yellow", cherry => "red";
say %color<banana>;               # OUTPUT: «yellow␤» 
say %color<cherry kiwi>.raku;     # OUTPUT: «("red", "green")␤» 
say %color<strawberry>:exists;    # OUTPUT: «False␤»

Technically, not a real operator; it's syntactic sugar that's turned into the { } postcircumfix operator at compile-time.