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It makes it look like they're just adding random noise to avoid colliding with existing syntax. Maybe they can try a UUID next time...
It makes perfect sense actually. I did write another comment here if you are interested.
This is how operator overloads were written going back to the initial version of C++ back in 1985. The only new thing is that we can now add
= defaultto get the compiler to generate a default implementation that compares all the member variables for you.