Getting module of a class

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:

> The reason is this:  these days it's en vogue to make classes contain
> as few functions as necessary, and to write everything else as
> non-member functions.

OT: is it?  What's this "model" called?  "Oh, C was right after all"?  ;)

What are the supposed advantages of developing like this?