10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the parsing step locates at least one of the following group runtime behavior characteristic directives: an Application directive, a Library directive, an Assembly directive, or a Namespace directive.
6. A computer-readable storage medium configured with data and with instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the processor(s) to perform a technical process for managing runtime behavior characteristics of types and type members of a computer program in an environment, the computer program having a source code which is written in at least one data-typed programming language, the process comprising the steps of: electronically obtaining in a volatile digital memory a directives document containing human-readable directives which are not interleaved with the computer program source code and which are parsable by software and which are not written in the data-typed programming language; software parsing the directives document and thereby locating at least two of the following runtime behavior characteristic directives; a directive that a type T of the computer program source code is a required type, an optional type, or a prohibited type in the environment, a directive that a type member M of the computer program source code is a required type member, an optional type member, or a prohibited type member in the environment, or a directive that a degree D is enabled or disabled for a type T or a type member M in the environment; and submitting at least a portion of parsing step results to a compiler to manage at least one runtime behavior characteristic of the computer program in the environment.