Implicit initialization is EVIL!

[rantingrick]

On Jul 5, 7:34 pm, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, everything you do requires the underlying window manager,
> otherwise you're just painting your own pixels on the screen. And I
> never said that this model was possible in some and not others.
> (Although it's a bit harder with Windows; there's no explicit call to
> finalize windowing, so most likely the application will hold GUI
> memory until termination.)

Ah ha. I think we are getting somewhere now. Everything up to this
point has been mostly exposition :-)