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Constraints in Non-Boolean Contexts De Koninck, Leslie Brand, Sebastian Stuckey, Peter J. Constraint modelling languages model transformation partial functions In high-level constraint modelling languages, constraints can occur in non-Boolean contexts: implicitly, in the form of partial functions, or more explicitly, in the form of constraints on local variables in non-Boolean expressions. Specifications using these facilities are often more succinct. However, these specifications are typically executed on solvers that only support questions of the form of existentially quantified conjunctions of constraints. We show how we can translate expressions with constraints appearing in non-Boolean contexts into conjunctions of ordinary constraints. The translation is clearly structured into constrained type elimination, local variable lifting and partial function elimination. We explain our approach in the context of the modelling language Zinc. An implementation of it is an integral part of our Zinc compiler. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Leslie De Koninck and Sebastian Brand and Peter J. Stuckey 2011 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 11, Technical Communications of the 27th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'11) (2011) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2011.117 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-31685 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2011.117 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode