libcruft-util/random.hpp

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#ifndef CRUFT_UTIL_RANDOM_HPP
#define CRUFT_UTIL_RANDOM_HPP

#include <algorithm>
#include <random>
#include <limits>


namespace util::random {
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    /// return correctly initialised thread-local generator of an unspecified,
    /// but not entirely useless, type. ie, not LCG.
    inline auto&
    generator (void)
    {
        static thread_local std::default_random_engine gen { std::random_device {}() };
        return gen;
    }


    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    /// select a value uniformly from the range [lo, hi)
    template <typename T>
    std::enable_if_t<std::is_floating_point_v<T>,T>
    uniform (T lo, T hi)
    {
        return std::uniform_real_distribution<T> { lo, hi } (generator ());
    }


    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// select a value uniformly from the range [lo, hi)
    template <typename T>
    std::enable_if_t<std::is_integral_v<T>,T>
    uniform (T lo, T hi)
    {
        return std::uniform_int_distribution<T> { lo, hi } (generator ());
    }


    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename T>
    std::enable_if_t<std::is_integral_v<T>,T>
    uniform (void)
    {
        return uniform (
            std::numeric_limits<T>::min (),
            std::numeric_limits<T>::max ()
        );
    }


    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    /// choose a value at random from an array
    template <typename T, size_t N>
    T&
    choose (T (&t)[N])
    {
        std::uniform_int_distribution<size_t> dist (0, N - 1);
        return t[dist (generator ())];
    }
};

#endif