Using a namespace in place of a static class in C++?

Question

Is it good or okay practice to use a namespace as a static class? For example:

namespace MyStaticFunctions {
    void doSomething();
}

Vers

Answer 1

It depends.

Is the method logically related to a class? If so, make it a member, otherwise place it in a namespace.

Functionally, they're the same, but there's more to code than function, right? For example, consider a method that returns the name of the class:

struct MyClass
{
    static std::string getName() { return "MyClass"; }
}

You could obviously place the method outside, in a namespace, and get the same result, but it logically belongs to the class.