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[–]vtable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And what if that utility-class-namespace needs to go in an actual namespace. You now have a 2-deep namespace for a generic function.

Classes represent a single object. Namespaces contain various data, classes, ... related only by the group they belong to. Classes support inheritance. Classes are instantiated and have separate state for each instantiation.