Managers are not objects

The presence of a manager object typically signifies a problem with your design, the result of which is a client interface expressed as objects outside the client's problem domain.The word manager in a class name often indicates this problem. A centralized implementation, either within an address space or between address spaces, is just an implementation detail. For example, suppose you want a function to apply to multiple windows, such as CloseAllOpenWindows. The wrong way to do this is to have clients call a TWindowManager class. The correct way is to make CloseAllOpenWindows a static member of TWindow. It is associated with the class it applies to, and its multiobject function is reflected by its being static.


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