Point-free
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Employing or relating to tacit programming. not-comparable
"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."
- 2 Synonym of pointless (“without points”). not-comparable
"Hence, what are the (hopefully natural) conditions under which they do hold? All this calls for studying the point-free separation."
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From point + -free.
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