lama_byterun/stdlib/Random.lama

-- Random data structures generator.
-- (C) Dmitry Boulytchev, JetBrains Research, St. Petersburg State University, 2020
--
-- This unit provides an implementation for random data structures generator

import Array;

-- Generates a random signed 31-bit integer
public fun randomInt () {
  if random (2)
  then random (1073741823) 
  else 0 - random (1073741823)
  fi
}

-- Generates a printable ASCII string of given length
public fun randomString (len) {
  local s = makeString (len);

  for local i = 0;, i < len, i := i+1
  do
    s [i] := 32 + random (94) -- printable ASCII set
  od;

  s
}

-- Generates a random array of (deep) size n. f is element-generation
-- function which takes the size of the element
public fun randomArray (f, n) {
  mapArray (f, split (n))  
}

-- Splits a number in a random sequence of summands
public fun split (n) {
  local k = random (n) + 1,
        a = makeArray (k),
        m = n;

  for local i = 0;, i < k, i := i + 1
  do
    if i == k - 1
    then a[i] := m
    else 
      a [i] := random (m - k + i + 1) + 1;
      m := m - a [i]
    fi
  od;

  a
}