Implicit initialization is EVIL!

[Gregory Ewing]

rantingrick wrote:

> Unlike most GUI libraries the Tkinter developers thought is would
> "just wonderful" if the root GUI window just sprang into existence if
> the programmer "somehow" forgot to create one.

IMO the real problem here is the existence of a privileged
"root" window at all. No GUI platform I know of has any
such concept (except for a "desktop" window that represents
the whole screen, which is not the same thing). All top-level
windows should have equal status.

-- 
Greg