Pattern for Creating a Simple and Efficient Value type

Question

Motivation:

In reading Mark Seemann’s blog on Code Smell: Automatic Property he says near the end:

The bottom line is that au

Answer 1

I think this is a perfectly fine implementation pattern for value types. I've done similar things in the past that have worked out well.

Just one thing, since Celsius is implicitly convertible to/from int anyway, you can define the bounds like this:

public const int MinValue = -273;
public const int MaxValue = int.MaxValue;

However, in reality there's no practical difference between static readonly and const.