Understanding grid[y][x] in gridmancer

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I’m having some trouble understanding what this part of the gridmancer example code does

var occupied = grid[y][x].length > 0;
What does the length signify? Why would it be longer than 0 if it’s occupied?

Any available documentation on grid, or advice on how to tell if a coordinate is a wall would be greatly appreciated.

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You’re totally right that a little documentation would go a long way. What is actually in grid[y][x] are the Thangs representing the walls that touch this (x, y) coordinate. In this map, there are no overlapping walls, so it’s either one wall Thang (length == 1), meaning occupied, or zero wall Thangs (length == 0), meaning unoccupied.

Hope this helps–eventually you’ll be able to hover over the variable to inspect the data structure and see any further documentation, but we don’t have that yet.

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Thank you. That helps a lot.

Hovering over the variable to inspect it’s contents sounds like an extremely useful feature.