Yes, the J dyad $ , is the same as the APL dyad 
"rho" and is supported by special code.  See the
opening paragraph of Appendix B of the dictionary:

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/special.htm



----- Original Message -----
From: June Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, February 18, 2007 4:18 am
Subject: [Jprogramming] Re: Style and Literacy in APL

> I did make mistakes.
> 
> R=:$ ,
> 
> and replace f with spd in the following usage examples.
> 
> 2007/2/18, June Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > After studying APL2 language reference for a while, it seems like
> > APL's rho(reshape) and J's shape($) has different behaviour.
> >
> > R=:$@,
> > spd=: 4 : 0
> >   X=.y
> >   col=. x
> >   ((1{f),*/ 0 2{f  ) R 1 0 2|:(f=.col,c%col,1)R(c=.d+(col|col-0{(d=.
> > $X)),0){. X
> > )
> >
> >   mat=.3 4 $'can you see '
> >   2 f mat
> > can see
> > you
> >   3 f mat
> > can you see
> >   $2 f mat
> > 2 8
> >   $3 f mat
> > 1 12
> >
> > This works. Didn't I make any mistakes?
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