Introduction

This document's purpose is to describe, explain, and justify the design of the ilog.language.design package. Its main goal is to serve as a specification as well as a documentation of the details of various of its intricacies. As such, it serves mainly its author helping him to keep track of subtleties he alone may know of but may not remember--at least not in full detail--and, of course, it is meant for the sake of the few, the proud, the ``volunteer'' pre-$\alpha$-testers of the viability of the whole design--especially the $NGO$ design team, and any others having been exposed, willy or nilly, to some of, or the whole package!^1.1