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point-free

adj

Etymology

From point + -free.

  1. derived from *pungō✻ — “to sting, prick”
  2. derived from pūnctus
  3. derived from pointe
  4. derived from pūnctum — “a hole punched in; a point, puncture”
  5. derived from point
  6. inherited from poynt
  7. suffixed as point-free — “point + free”

Definitions

  1. Employing or relating to tacit programming.

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for point-free. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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