I'm learning the evaluation rules for tacit expressions, since that is
what's commonly posted as solutions. Is there a utility to generate an
explicit definition from a tacit definition?

For example, to generate a tacit expression from explicit

 13 : '(+/ y) % # y'

+/ % #

Is there some routine to expand that out? (I've now learned that its a
fork).  It seems possible that it could expand out to multiple possible
variants -- since as I understand, it's a reduced form. I've looked at
fndisplay but didn't put too much time into it yet since I wasn't sure that
it's what I was looking for.


Along those same lines, j6 shows a representation of an expression in boxes
which I've found to be helpful to understand how an expression is grouped.
I haven't seen that same functionality in j7 or j8. Does it exist?

I find myself spending a fair amount of time taking an expression and then
looking up its parts in the Vocabulary to understand what its doing.
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