I could be very wrong here, as I don't have a strong background in theoretical mathematics or functional programming, but from my brief foray into FP, it seems that currying tends to turn a function of N arguments into N functions of one argument, whereas partial application [in practice] works better with variadic functions with an indeterminate number of arguments. I know some of the examples in previous answers defy this explanation, but it has helped me the most to separate the concepts. Consider this example (written in CoffeeScript for succinctness, my apologies if it confuses further, but please ask for clarification, if needed):

# partial application
partial_apply = (func) ->
  args = [].slice.call arguments, 1
  -> func.apply null, args.concat [].slice.call arguments

sum_variadic = -> [].reduce.call arguments, (acc, num) -> acc + num

add_to_7_and_5 = partial_apply sum_variadic, 7, 5

add_to_7_and_5 10 # returns 22
add_to_7_and_5 10, 11, 12 # returns 45

# currying
curry = (func) ->
  num_args = func.length
  helper = (prev) ->
    ->
      args = prev.concat [].slice.call arguments
      return if args.length < num_args then helper args else func.apply null, args
  helper []

sum_of_three = (x, y, z) -> x + y + z
curried_sum_of_three = curry sum_of_three
curried_sum_of_three 4 # returns a function expecting more arguments
curried_sum_of_three(4)(5) # still returns a function expecting more arguments
curried_sum_of_three(4)(5)(6) # returns 15
curried_sum_of_three 4, 5, 6 # returns 15

这显然是一个人为的例子，但请注意，部分应用一个接受任意数量参数的函数允许我们使用一些初步数据来执行函数。curry函数与此类似，但允许我们分批执行N个参数的函数，直到，但只是直到，所有N个参数都被考虑。

再说一次，这是我从我读过的东西中得出的结论。如果有人不同意，我希望能就原因发表评论，而不是立即投反对票。另外，如果CoffeeScript很难阅读，请访问coffeescript.org，点击“尝试CoffeeScript”并粘贴我的代码来查看编译后的版本，这可能(希望)更有意义。谢谢!

有趣的问题。经过一番搜索，“部分函数应用程序不是咖喱”给出了我找到的最好的解释。我不能说实际的区别对我来说特别明显，但我不是一个FP专家……

另一个看起来很有用的页面(我承认我还没有完全读完)是“用Java闭包curry和Partial Application”。

注意，这看起来确实是一对被广泛混淆的术语。

curry是将一个有n个参数的函数转换为n个每个函数都有一个参数的函数。给定以下函数:

function f(x,y,z) { z(x(y));}

咖喱后，变成:

function f(x) { lambda(y) { lambda(z) { z(x(y)); } } }

为了得到f(x,y,z)的完整应用，你需要这样做:

f(x)(y)(z);

许多函数式语言允许你写fx y z。如果你只调用fx y或f(x)(y)，那么你会得到一个部分应用的函数——返回值是lambda(z){z(x(y))}的闭包，将x和y的值传递给f(x,y)。

使用部分应用的一种方法是将函数定义为广义函数的部分应用，如fold:

function fold(combineFunction, accumulator, list) {/* ... */}
function sum     = curry(fold)(lambda(accum,e){e+accum}))(0);
function length  = curry(fold)(lambda(accum,_){1+accum})(empty-list);
function reverse = curry(fold)(lambda(accum,e){concat(e,accum)})(empty-list);

/* ... */
@list = [1, 2, 3, 4]
sum(list) //returns 10
@f = fold(lambda(accum,e){e+accum}) //f = lambda(accumulator,list) {/*...*/}
f(0,list) //returns 10
@g = f(0) //same as sum
g(list)  //returns 10

I could be very wrong here, as I don't have a strong background in theoretical mathematics or functional programming, but from my brief foray into FP, it seems that currying tends to turn a function of N arguments into N functions of one argument, whereas partial application [in practice] works better with variadic functions with an indeterminate number of arguments. I know some of the examples in previous answers defy this explanation, but it has helped me the most to separate the concepts. Consider this example (written in CoffeeScript for succinctness, my apologies if it confuses further, but please ask for clarification, if needed):

# partial application
partial_apply = (func) ->
  args = [].slice.call arguments, 1
  -> func.apply null, args.concat [].slice.call arguments

sum_variadic = -> [].reduce.call arguments, (acc, num) -> acc + num

add_to_7_and_5 = partial_apply sum_variadic, 7, 5

add_to_7_and_5 10 # returns 22
add_to_7_and_5 10, 11, 12 # returns 45

# currying
curry = (func) ->
  num_args = func.length
  helper = (prev) ->
    ->
      args = prev.concat [].slice.call arguments
      return if args.length < num_args then helper args else func.apply null, args
  helper []

sum_of_three = (x, y, z) -> x + y + z
curried_sum_of_three = curry sum_of_three
curried_sum_of_three 4 # returns a function expecting more arguments
curried_sum_of_three(4)(5) # still returns a function expecting more arguments
curried_sum_of_three(4)(5)(6) # returns 15
curried_sum_of_three 4, 5, 6 # returns 15

这显然是一个人为的例子，但请注意，部分应用一个接受任意数量参数的函数允许我们使用一些初步数据来执行函数。curry函数与此类似，但允许我们分批执行N个参数的函数，直到，但只是直到，所有N个参数都被考虑。

再说一次，这是我从我读过的东西中得出的结论。如果有人不同意，我希望能就原因发表评论，而不是立即投反对票。另外，如果CoffeeScript很难阅读，请访问coffeescript.org，点击“尝试CoffeeScript”并粘贴我的代码来查看编译后的版本，这可能(希望)更有意义。谢谢!

要了解它们的不同之处，最简单的方法是考虑一个真实的例子。让我们假设我们有一个函数Add，它接受2个数字作为输入，并返回一个数字作为输出，例如Add(7,5)返回12。在这种情况下:

Partial applying the function Add with a value 7 will give us a new function as output. That function itself takes 1 number as input and outputs a number. As such: Partial(Add, 7); // returns a function f2 as output // f2 takes 1 number as input and returns a number as output So we can do this: f2 = Partial(Add, 7); f2(5); // returns 12; // f2(7)(5) is just a syntactic shortcut Currying the function Add will give us a new function as output. That function itself takes 1 number as input and outputs yet another new function. That third function then takes 1 number as input and returns a number as output. As such: Curry(Add); // returns a function f2 as output // f2 takes 1 number as input and returns a function f3 as output // i.e. f2(number) = f3 // f3 takes 1 number as input and returns a number as output // i.e. f3(number) = number So we can do this: f2 = Curry(Add); f3 = f2(7); f3(5); // returns 12

换句话说，“套用”和“局部应用”是两种完全不同的功能。curry只需要1个输入，而partial应用程序需要2个(或更多)输入。

尽管它们都返回一个函数作为输出，但返回的函数是完全不同的形式，如上所述。

在学习的过程中，我经常有这个问题，后来也被问过很多次。我能描述的最简单的方式是两者都是一样的:)让我解释一下…有明显的区别。

部分应用程序和curry都涉及向函数提供参数，可能不是一次全部提供。一个相当典型的例子是两个数字相加。在伪代码(实际上是没有关键字的JS)中，基函数可能如下所示:

add = (x, y) => x + y

如果我想要一个“addOne”函数，我可以部分应用它或curry它:

addOneC = curry(add, 1)
addOneP = partial(add, 1)

现在使用它们是很清楚的:

addOneC(2) #=> 3
addOneP(2) #=> 3

那么有什么不同呢?好吧，这很微妙，但部分应用程序涉及提供一些参数，然后返回的函数将在下次调用时执行主函数，而curry将一直等待，直到它拥有所有必要的参数:

curriedAdd = curry(add) # notice, no args are provided
addOne = curriedAdd(1) # returns a function that can be used to provide the last argument
addOne(2) #=> returns 3, as we want

partialAdd = partial(add) # no args provided, but this still returns a function
addOne = partialAdd(1) # oops! can only use a partially applied function once, so now we're trying to add one to an undefined value (no second argument), and we get an error

简而言之，使用partial application预填充一些值，知道下次调用该方法时，它将执行，所有未提供的参数都未定义;当您希望连续多次返回部分应用的函数以实现函数签名时，请使用curry。最后一个人为的例子:

curriedAdd = curry(add)
curriedAdd()()()()()(1)(2) # ugly and dumb, but it works

partialAdd = partial(add)
partialAdd()()()()()(1)(2) # second invocation of those 7 calls fires it off with undefined parameters

希望这能有所帮助!

更新:一些语言或库实现将允许您传递一个arity(最终计算中的参数总数)到部分应用程序实现，这可能会将我的两个描述合并成令人困惑的混乱…但在这一点上，这两种技术在很大程度上是可以互换的。