[TextMate] Syntax Highlighting regex question

[Ollivier Robert]

According to James Spahr:
> A regular expression which is used to identify the portion of text to 
> be styled. Example: "\\<(true|false)\\>".
> 
> How is this different from:  "(true|false)"
> 
> in other words what are the < and > doing in the regex?

Word boundaries I'd say, that way you highlight 

foo = true 

but not

bar = sad_but_true
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