PatR cbdda9dc9d adopt github pull request #286 - rndmonst() ...

Eliminate the cache that was supporting rndmonst() and pick a random
monster in a single pass through mons[] via "weighted reservoir
sampling", a term I'm not familiar with.

It had a couple of bugs:  if the first monster examined happened to
be given a weighting of 0, rn2() would divide by 0.  I didn't try
to figure out how to trigger that.  But the second one was easy to
trigger:  if all eligible monsters were extinct or genocided, it
would issue a warning even though the situation isn't impossible.

Aside from fixing those, the rest is mostly as-is.  I included a bit
of formatting in decl.c, moved some declarations to not require C99,
and changed a couple of macros to not hide and duplicate a call to
level_difficulty().

Fixes #286

2020-02-22 17:40:55 -08:00

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