Re: School Assignment--Can this be simplified?

[Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@amsjv.com>]

Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@baesystems.com> writes:

> 1. 'magic numbers' (e.g. 273.15) are repeated and would be more
>    readable as named numbers (e.g. c_to_k_factor : constant := 273.15;)

Agreed in principle, but I don't think that 273.15 is a 'factor'
precisely :-)

We have just spent several minutes discussing a suitable name; one
suggestion was on the lines of Zero_Celsius_In_Kelvins.

  procedure P (Temperature : Float);
  -- Temperature is in Kelvins

  C : Float;
  -- in Celsius

  ...

  P (Temperature => C + Zero_Celsius_In_Kelvins);

which is pretty icky. Perhaps derived or even private types would be
interesting. Perhaps just conversion functions, inline if you like?

  function To_Kelvins (Temperature_In_Celsius : Float) return Float;

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