** Reshape, in JavaScript and APL **
In APL the rho, ⍴, called reshape is used to both construct arrays of a given shape (dimensionality), and to reconfigure arrays into new shapes.

Sometimes I wish I had reshape in JavaScript…so I wrote it!

Here are two functions that, when combined, a la Captain Planet, can stand in for APL’s reshape in JavaScript.

Ravel is the simpler of the two, it takes an array of any dimension and ret … ⌘ Read more