About representation in boxes you may be thinking of the "foreign" 5!:2 .  See

http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/dictionary/dx005.htm

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On Sep 15, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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