title: What is the meaning of the ==<> operator?
body: <p>Looking into some code of a colleague of mine, I came accross the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>friend bool operator==&lt;&gt;(ValueIter&lt;Type&gt; const &amp;rhs, ValueIter&lt;Type&gt; const &amp;lhs);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It is declared in  a template class:</p>
  
  <pre><code>template&lt;typename Type&gt;
  class ValueIter: public std::iterator&lt;std::bidirectional_iterator_tag, Type&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone tell me what the <code>==&lt;&gt;</code> symbol indicates? I expect it has something to with the <code>!=</code> operator. </p>