[Dev-C++] I've never seen this one before.

[Opacki, J. <Jos...@ng...>]

Can someone tell me if they see something blatantly obvious.

My compile.log relays the following, please note I have wrapped my class def
in my own namespace(opacki):

	warning: friend declaration `std::ostream&
opacki::operator<<(std::ostream&, const opacki::List<ItemType>&)' 
	declares a non-template function

// function type inside my class declaration //

friend ostream& operator <<(ostream& outs, const List<ItemType>& theList);

// full function in my implementation template //

template<class ItemType>
ostream& operator <<(ostream& outs, const List<ItemType>& theList)
{
	for ( int i = 0; i < theList.currentLength; i++ )
	{
		outs << theList.item[i] << endl;
	}
        
	return outs;
}

// inside main() //

    List<int> firstList(2);
    firstList.add(1);
    firstList.add(2);
    cout << "first list = " << firstList;
//       ^ error occurs here //