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point-free

point-free adjective: employing or relating to tacit programming.

Adjective

point-free (not comparable)

  1. Employing or relating to tacit programming.
    • Point-free coding is a byproduct of adopting declarative programming. You can use point-free coding without FP. But because point-free is all about improving the readability of code at a glance and making it simpler to parse, having the guarantees imposed by FP furthers this cause.2021, Luis Atencio, The Joy of JavaScript, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 104
    Synonyms:
    pointless
  2. Synonym of pointless (“without points”).
    • Hence, what are the (hopefully natural) conditions under which they do hold? All this calls for studying the point-free separation.2021, Jorge Picado, Aleš Pultr, Separation in Point-Free Topology, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page xii
    Synonyms:
    pointless

Synonyms of point-free

Origin of point-free

From point + -free.

Questions about point-free

What does point-free mean?
Point-free means employing or relating to tacit programming.
What part of speech is point-free?
Point-free is an adjective.

Words near point-free in the dictionary

  1. point-and-shooter
  2. point-and-shooters
  3. point-blank
  4. point-device
  5. point-devise
  6. point-free
  7. point-in-line
  8. point-in-lines
  9. point-instant
  10. point-instants
  11. point-of-view

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