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Hey :wave: 
Can someone explain to me the idea of giving a companion object a name. Why should I do it, if the name of the class is used anyway in the end to access the companion object?

```Members of the companion object can be called simply by using the class name as the qualifier: ...
```
&amp;&amp;
```The name of the companion object can be omitted, in which case the name Companion is used: ...
```
See: <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/object-declarations.html#companion-objects|https://kotlinlang.org/docs/object-declarations.html#companion-objects>

Probably interop if you call that code from non-Kotlin code?

before Kotlin 1.0 settled on the design, there were unnamed default class objects, declared with `default object` or later `class object`. the lack of a name prevented adding extension functions, so it became possible to name them. later, they were renamed to `companion object`

<https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/commit/2e837c6586af6a312044d19f8fd7d34366ddba28>

<https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/commit/7cc416ed124172765463a8384c13033829d15a15>