Say one has a function, f, and a list, {a,b,c,d}. And say that that it makes sense to construct

f[a][b][c][d]

Which is the same as

(((f[a])[b])[c])[d]

I want to be able to do this with a single function that takes 2 arguments, f and {a,b,c,d}. If I call this function ArgumentApply it would act like this

ArgumentApply[f, {a, b, c, d}]

and give the above result:

f[a][b][c][d]

Why would I want this? Here is one example which I needed to code recently. Say that f is, in fact, an Association containing Associations. Here is a very simple example with Associations down to the 4th level:

fAssociation =
 <|a ->
   <|b ->
     <|c -> 
       <|d -> \[Pi]
        |>
      |>
    |>
  |>

And then one has:

fAssociation[a]

<|b -> <|c -> <|d -> [Pi]|>|>|>

fAssociation[a][b]

<|c -> <|d -> \[Pi]|>|>

fAssociation[a][b][c]

<|d -> \[Pi]|>

fAssociation[a][b][c][d] 

\[Pi]

So one might want the function ArgumentApply to take care of all of these possibilties using, respectively,

ArgumentApply[fAssociation, {a}]

ArgumentApply[fAssociation, {a, b}]

ArgumentApply[fAssociation, {a, b, c}]

ArgumentApply[fAssociation, {a, b, c, d}]

Here is one approach that works specifically for Associations:

ArgumentApply[f_Association, list_List] :=
  Module[{ fun,  x},  
  fun = <|"a" -> x|>;
  Scan[(fun = fun[#]) &, {"a", Sequence @@ list}];
  fun /. x -> f
  ]

Andindeed it works:

ArgumentApply[fAssociation, {a, b, c}]

<|d -> \[Pi]|>

ArgumentApply[fAssociation, {a, b, c, d}]

\[Pi]

The question is whether there is a simple approach in Mathematica using a basic function with a particular argument choice and which works both for Associations as well as any other function head f.