point-free
adjEtymology From point + -free.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences 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:
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Mathematics, Sciences 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: