From ff5673ae1b74b8ad59ee23921e0bb4e25349d10f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kelley <superjoe30@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 04:30:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add rand.float32 to standard library

---
 std/rand.zig | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/std/rand.zig b/std/rand.zig
index d925f3fad1..1bd9c3bccf 100644
--- a/std/rand.zig
+++ b/std/rand.zig
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ pub struct Rand {
         }
     }
 
+    pub fn float32(r: &Rand) -> f32 {
+        const precision = 16777216;
+        return f32(r.range_u64(0, precision)) / precision;
+    }
+
     fn generate_numbers(r: &Rand) {
         for (item, r.array, i) {
             const y : u32 = (item & 0x80000000) + (r.array[(i + 1) % ARRAY_SIZE] & 0x7fffffff);
@@ -91,3 +96,17 @@ pub fn rand_new(seed: u32) -> Rand {
     }
     return r;
 }
+
+#attribute("test")
+fn test_float32() {
+    var r = rand_new(42);
+
+    // TODO for loop with range
+    var i: i32 = 0;
+    while (i < 1000) {
+        const val = r.float32();
+        if (!(val >= 0.0)) unreachable{};
+        if (!(val < 1.0)) unreachable{};
+        i += 1;
+    }
+}