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Is there any benefit to having constants in a companion object instead of just using `private val`s in a singleton? Or even `public val`s for that matter

mostly just for `const val` and maybe other other things that you can annotate to mimic `static` for java interop

in 99 instances out of 100 we try to avoid `static` stuff in Java, so that is out of scope too. Okay, leaving "real" benefits/downsides aside. What does convention say about this? Is it a suggested practice to use companion object even if you do not care about java interop and static?