What would you name this class? [modified]

[Ravi Bhavnani]

MRLacey wrote:

Objects shouldn't control other objects.

Are you completely unfamiliar with the concept of design patterns? /ravi

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[grgran]

Tish, tish ... don't you mean fooCIO ... after all what if he wants to create a class that manages a collection of fooCIO objects ? ;-)

[SyntaxC4 0]

I'd say FooManagerCollection, or even FooManagerFactory.

[cjdunford]

What's wrong with 'FooManagers'? There's a nice little convention (I first noticed it in VB though it undoubtedly started somewhere else) that if class A is a collection of class B objects, the name for class A is simply the plural of the name of class B. So, an 'Items' object is a collection of 'Item' objects. Items[i] is--an Item. Simple, obvious, works in most cases.

[JasonCordes]

A manager of managers. Good question. I would be penchant for something like FooSupervisor or MCP (for those Tron geeks out there).

[brian8655]

I don't know what kind of data structures you are using, but somewhere in there I hope you have a queue. Even if you don't need it, how can you resist creating an object named FooQueue?

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[BillWoodruff]

an object that controls a collection of FooManagers? Dear Ravi, May I suggest : MoFoManager MotherOfAllFoos FooManagerHerder If you are a Hindi speaker, may I suggest : AndherNagreeChauputRajah best, Bill

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[tonyS10024]

MrPresident

[destynova]

FooManagerManager would be consistent :P This is one of the things that always makes me a little uncomfortable and not satsified when writing big programs in Java. Perhaps an issue with OO in general, having large, empty hierarchies of classes... unless there is compelling logic happening at each level. It gets really tedious if you're unit-testing everything you write, and you realise you need to build something like this.

[rastaVnuce]

Oh, we're fishing for class name compliments, are we? :)

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

[Rick Shaub]

FooManagerManager (FooMgrMgr for short)? FooManagerPlusPlus? FooDirector? If you create a new Manager for your FooDirector, it could be named FooVP.

[KramII]

One or all of the following: FooFooManager LordOfAllFooManagers FooAlmighty FooOfFoos HisGreatFooness TheGreatFooInTheSky Ralph

KramII

[Ravi Bhavnani]

brian8655 wrote:

an object named FooQueue?

Already suggested. :) /ravi

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

KramII wrote:

Ralph

:) /ravi

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[Krenshau75]

"h, by the way, I was in mechanical engineering for many years before switching to software engineering, so I have many traits of a mechanical engineer, I like beer and cars for example, and not those of a typical software engineer. " I don't think being a software engineer excludes a person from being "cool". I like shooting assault rifles, classic rock, and racing cars(I used to race cars). I have more geek attributes than nerd attributes (if there is a difference), but I still like "normal" stuff. However, by most accounts I am a geek and I think most software engineers are too. I actually find it more interesting to be around geeks. They aren't all caught up in Berry Bonds steroid use or the Jeff Gordon nascar crash. I prefer discussing how Intel and AMD are scamming consumers by holding back on releasing better technology just so they can get a better return on their R&D, or how OSS is OK, but it will never become what MS has become. I think this is clear. Geeks (nerds) are cool. Everyone else is just boring. :laugh:

Ben

[Lost User]

Odd. I am totaly not a geek or a nerd. I like talking about philosophy, telling jokes, politics, food, especially food, but never about computers. For me computers are a job. I like writing device drivers for windows, its very complex, very challenging, but I dont give a toss what the market as a whole is doing elsewhere.

Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

[feraudy]

UberFoo :-D Henri

[Krenshau75]

OK, this is strangely becoming more like a personals ad. Maybe, you don't feel apart of the geek community, but I do think that for the most part software engineering does attract people that may be considered geeks or nerds. Although, that seems to be mostly an U.S. thing. Outside of the U.S. those people just seem to be considered very smart.

Ben

[Member 96]

fat_boy wrote:

John C wrote: For the most part he's the village idiot Do you really take it so seriously?

Sorry, that was a little harsh, I should have said *one of* the village idiots, there's at least a dozen I'm sure if I added them all up. ;)

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[patbob]

What's a foo? If you're using "foo" as a name for something in production code, I think you have bigger problems than what to call a foo object manager manager. Might as well call it "bar", after all, you'd be hard pressed to obsfucate your code further. Besides, changing class names is a low risk operation, so don't fret over it. D'oh! Nevermind. Haven't had my coffee yet :) Overseer? UberManager? OverLord (that one's always fun)? Controller? Foreman? Container?

patbob

modified on Friday, May 23, 2008 12:17 PM