ous:
          <tt>'a' &gt;&gt; 'b'</tt> is <b>not</b> a spirit parser, it is a
          numeric expression, right-shifting the ASCII (or another encoding)
          value of <tt class="quotes">'a'</tt> by the ASCII value of
              <tt class="quotes">'b'</tt>. However, both <tt>ch_p('a') &gt;&gt;
              'b'</tt> and <tt>'a' &gt;&gt; ch_p('b')</tt> are Spirit sequence
              parsers for the letter <tt class="quotes">'a'</tt> followed by
              <tt class="quotes">'b'</tt>. You'll 