METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONCISE EXPRESSION OF OPTIONAL CODE SNIPPETS IN INTERREPTED LANGUAGES

摘要

A method and apparatus for the concise expression of optional code snippets in interpreted object-oriented programming language software applications is described. In one embodiment, the method includes defining a first class where the first class is a concise expression class that includes one or more objects. The method may also include including the concise expression class in a second class that includes one or more objects of the second class. The method may also include executing an expression in a software application to evaluate an object of the second class and returning an instance of an object of the concise expression class when data associated with the object of the second class does not exist within the software application.