diff --git a/ari.goal b/ari.goal
index 151c4f6..544ddd9 100644
--- a/ari.goal
+++ b/ari.goal
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 / Shape
 istbl:{and["d"=@x;&/"s"=@'!x;&/{(@'x)¿"ANSI"}x;&/(*ls)=ls:#'x]} / is x a dictionary-as-table
+mktbl:{ks:!*x; vs:@[;ks]'x; ks!+vs} / given list of dicts, create dictionary-as-table
 shape:{-1_#:'*:\x} / Implementation by John Earnest, shared on k-tree
 depths:{[ind;l]?[(@l)~"A";,/o[ind+1]'l; (@l)¿"NSI";(#l)#ind; ind-1]} / list depths
 zero:..[i:0;n:0.0;s:"";r:rx//;d:()!();f:(:);A:()] / handle, error don't fill
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ csv.tbl:{(*'x)!(1_'x)} / table from csv parsing, assumes header
 json.tbl:{ / table from parsing json array of like objects
   ?["d"~@x
     ?[istbl x;:x;:error"dict is not a table: $x"]
-    [ks:!*x; vs:@[;ks]'x; ks!+vs]]}
+    mktbl@x]}
 / Interactive Tools
 ac:{gs:,/rt.get'!"! kw";ms:?["s"=@x;(..p.x%p.gs)#gs;[(..p.x@p.gs)#gs]]; ms@<_ms } / auto-complete
 / Test Framework
diff --git a/testing/table-test.goal b/testing/table-test.goal
index 7b23e4f..32ae3dc 100644
--- a/testing/table-test.goal
+++ b/testing/table-test.goal
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 f:(path.dir abspath FILE)+"/data/starwars.csv"
 t:csv.tbl ","csv 'read f
-tt.t{87=#*t}; tt.t{14=#t}
+tt.t{istbl t}; tt.t{87=#*t}; tt.t{14=#t}
 t:json.tbl@json rq/[{"a":1,"b":2},{"a":10,"b":20},{"a":100,"b":200}]/
 tt.t{t~..[a:(1 10 100);b:(2 20 200)]}
 tt.t{3=#*t}; tt.t{(1 10 100)~t"a"}
-/ BUG to be fixed
+/ BUG to be fixed, the zero values should be uniform by column.
 t:json.tbl@json rq/[{"a":1,"b":2},{"a":10},{"a":100,"b":200}]/
 tt.t{t~..[a:(1.0 10.0 100.0);b:(2.0 0.0 200.0)]}
 t:json.tbl@json rq/[{"a":"one","b":2},{"b":20},{"a":"hundred","b":200}]/