point-free

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point-free

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From point + -free.

adjective

not comparable 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.
Similar: pointless
not comparable 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.
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@misc{point_free_2026,
  title = {point-free},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/point-free},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}