parser strangeness wrt > (greater than sign)

Hello,

src/nparse.lisp says

  (def-nud (|$>| 80.) (op) ; > is a single-char object
    '($any . |$>|))

There is no similar declaration for $<.

NUD = null left denotation, meaning an operator which doesn't 
have stuff to the left, e.g., unary + or -.  So the following is all OK.

  >;
  > + >; =>  2 >
  > : 42;
  is (> > 17);  => true

I'm guessing that at some point > was being used as a prompt
or some other special symbol. However I can't find any use of $>
to mean something other than greater-than at present.

I'm not seeing the usefulness of allowing > to act like anything
other than greater than. Are there any objections to cutting the
above two lines from src/nparse.lisp ?

You'll let me know if I've overlooked something here.

Robert Dodier