pointerless

Without the use of pointers.

Adjective

  1. Without the use of pointers.
    • We will see, however, that the pointerless techniques are seldom satisfactory. Implementations of trees tend to be more complex than those of ordered lists. - 1989, Allen Kent, James G Williams, Rosalind Kent,...
    • The list representation is a pointerless representation that facilitates sequential access but is inefficient for random access to specific image elements. - 1992, Giorgio Gambosi, Michel O Scholl, Hans-Werner Six,...
    • But we can't use function pointers as we would in C++, and not just for the ideological reason that it doesn't enter into the spirit of the brave new pointerless world of the CLR. - 2003, Ian Griffiths, Matthew Adams,...

Origin

From pointer + -less.