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Return `true` if the specified `lhs` compares equal to the specified `rhs` using the equality‐comparison operator, `lhs == rhs`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_equalto.h>`

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[[nodiscard]]
constexpr
bool
operator()(
    VALUE_TYPE const& lhs,
    VALUE_TYPE const& rhs) const;
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== Return Value

[NOTE]
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The return value https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/attributes/nodiscard[should not be discarded^].
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