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I'm wondering if there is a standard name for the "<<" and ">>" operators? This is mostly in the context of teaching C++ and using those operators as part of stream input/output. If I need to read code or prompt for student responses (such as cout << "Hello";), I'm not sure how to verbalize those symbols. Is there a convention when reading them out loud?
Improved version of this question: How do you read the "<<" and ">>" symbols out loud?
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This operator (<<) applied to an output stream is known as insertion operator.
“>>” is extraction operator because “it extract data enter by user from console or input screen to some storage location identified by variable”.
When not overloaded, left-shift and right-shift and some people call them that even when used with streams, but insertion and extraction is a lot more common in that context. They are also sometimes informally called put to and get from. IIRC, Stroustrup favoured that last form.
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