17. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein the runtime identifiers allow client code to employ the compiled rating model without knowledge of internals thereof.
17. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein the runtime identifiers allow client code to employ the compiled rating model without knowledge of internals thereof. 18. The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the client code is a component of a networked information service; and wherein the networked information service sets values for the runtime instances of the variables and invokes the calculate method of the compiled rating model to generate a quote based thereon.