supercombinators - meaning and definition. What is supercombinators
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What (who) is supercombinators - definition


supercombinators      
Combinators with coarser granularity than those proposed by David Turner. A functional program is translated to a set of functions without free variables. The members of the set are selected to be optimal for that program. Supercombinators were proposed by John Hughes at University of Edinburgh.
Supercombinator         
BOUND AND SELF-CONTAINED MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION
A supercombinator is a mathematical expression which is fully bound and self-contained. It may be either a constant or a combinator where all the subexpressions are supercombinators.