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Specific heat of water in EMS

I'm trying to use the specific heat of water in an EMS program.

There are two built-in Erl functions, @CpCW (Cp for Chilled water) and @CpHW (Cp for Hot water) that accept an input parameter for temperature.

Except that as far as I understand from the source code here, both functions are exactly the same: they ignore the temperature passed to it and simply return 4180 J/kg-1.k-1. (I've tried using it, it's a constant 4180 indeed).

Am I missing something or is there just no function to get the specific heat at different temperatures?

Specific heat of water in EMS

I'm trying to use the specific heat of water in an EMS program.

There are two built-in Erl functions, @CpCW (Cp for Chilled water) and @CpHW (Cp for Hot water) that accept an input parameter for temperature.

Except that as far as I understand from the source code here, both functions are exactly the same: they ignore the temperature passed to it and simply return 4180 J/kg-1.k-1. (I've tried using it, it's a constant 4180 indeed).

Am I missing something or is there just no function to get the specific heat at different temperatures?