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tacit programming
Programming paradigm
Also known as point-free style programming
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Programming paradigm
Also known as point-free style programming
3 identifiers linking tacit programming across the web's reference databases
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Tacit programming, also called point-free style, is a programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments on which they operate. Instead the definitions merely compose other functions, among which are combinators that manipulate the arguments. Tacit programming is of theoretical interest, because the strict use of composition results in programs that are well adapted for equational reasoning. It is also the natural style of some programming languages, including APL and its derivatives, and concatenative languages such as Forth. The lack of argument naming gives point-free style a reputation of being needlessly obscure, hence the epithet "pointless style".