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。

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。

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。

注意:本文摘自f# Basics，这是一篇非常好的介绍性文章，供。net开发人员学习函数式编程。

Currying means breaking a function with many arguments into a series of functions that each take one argument and ultimately produce the same result as the original function. Currying is probably the most challenging topic for developers new to functional programming, particularly because it is often confused with partial application. You can see both at work in this example: let multiply x y = x * y let double = multiply 2 let ten = double 5 Right away, you should see behavior that is different from most imperative languages. The second statement creates a new function called double by passing one argument to a function that takes two. The result is a function that accepts one int argument and yields the same output as if you had called multiply with x equal to 2 and y equal to that argument. In terms of behavior, it’s the same as this code: let double2 z = multiply 2 z Often, people mistakenly say that multiply is curried to form double. But this is only somewhat true. The multiply function is curried, but that happens when it is defined because functions in F# are curried by default. When the double function is created, it’s more accurate to say that the multiply function is partially applied. The multiply function is really a series of two functions. The first function takes one int argument and returns another function, effectively binding x to a specific value. This function also accepts an int argument that you can think of as the value to bind to y. After calling this second function, x and y are both bound, so the result is the product of x and y as defined in the body of double. To create double, the first function in the chain of multiply functions is evaluated to partially apply multiply. The resulting function is given the name double. When double is evaluated, it uses its argument along with the partially applied value to create the result.

在写这篇文章时，我混淆了咖喱和不咖喱。它们是函数的逆变换。不管你怎么称呼它，只要你知道这个变换和它的逆代表什么。

不咖喱的定义不是很清楚(或者说，有“冲突”的定义都抓住了这个想法的精神)。基本上，这意味着将一个接受多个参数的函数转换为一个接受单个参数的函数。例如,

(+) :: Int -> Int -> Int

现在，你如何把它变成一个只有一个参数的函数呢?你当然作弊了!

plus :: (Int, Int) -> Int

注意，加号现在只有一个参数(由两件事组成)。超级!

这有什么意义?好吧，如果你有一个带两个参数的函数，你有一对参数，知道你可以把函数应用到参数上，并且仍然得到你想要的是很好的。事实上，这样做的管道已经存在，所以你不需要做像显式模式匹配这样的事情。你所要做的就是:

(uncurry (+)) (1,2)

什么是偏函数应用?将有两个参数的函数转换为只有一个参数的函数是另一种方法。但它的工作方式不同。同样，让我们以(+)为例。我们如何将它转换为一个以单个Int作为参数的函数?我们作弊!

((+) 0) :: Int -> Int

这是一个函数，将0加到任何Int。

((+) 1) :: Int -> Int

对任意Int值加1。等。在每一种情况下，(+)是“部分应用”。

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!