Can a class share a namespace's name?

Question

Is the following C++ code valid?

namespace Foo
{
    class Bar
    {
        // Class code here.
    };
}

namespace Foo
{
         


        

Answer 1

No, but you can have SomeFunction be a static member of the Bar class.

namespace Foo
{
    class Bar
    {
        // Class code here.
        static void SomeFunction()
        {
            // Function code here.
        }
    };
}

The result is not 100% equivalent to what you want (because of ADL) but the qualified names are what you expect.