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In kotlin, why `B.INSTANCE.foo()` is not allwoed but `A.Companion.foo()` is allowed. Code in :thread:
Also let me know if this is not a correct channel

```class A {
    companion object {
        fun foo() = 1
    }
}

object B {
    fun foo() = 1
}```

It definitely isn't the right channel because it has nothing to do with the stdlib

But I don't see the discrepancy, neither let's you reference the instance

There's no `INSTANCE` thing in Kotlin. `Companion` is just the name of the companion object, which is optional when referring to its members (you can just do `A.foo()`.

For code golf, what `B.INSTANCE.foo()` would refer to would be:
```object B {
  object INSTANCE {
    fun foo() = 1
  }
}```
But this would be pretty weird to see.

Yeah, INSTANCE is the JVM representation which shows up from Java