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Point-free

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Point-free is an adjective meaning (programming) Employing or relating to tacit programming.

Meaning

(programming) Employing or relating to tacit programming.

More Meanings

  1. (mathematics) Synonym of pointless (“without points”).

Example Sentences

Hence, what are the (hopefully natural) conditions under which they do hold? All this calls for studying the point-free separation.
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.

Synonyms for point-free

Depending on context, synonyms include pointless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pointless, pointerless, codeless, exceptionless, nonprogramming, free.

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