About representation in boxes you may be thinking of the "foreign" 5!:2 . See
http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/dictionary/dx005.htm Sent from my iPad 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
