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<div class="elementToProof">I have a constraint handler with the following property: when some variables in a constraint are locally fixed (to appropriate values) then some other variables can be (locally) removed from the constraint. Note that this is different
from propagation (sometimes these removable-from-the-constraint variables can have their domains reduced, sometimes not). I'm thinking about how to implement this. One option would be to remove the original constraint and then replace it with a local version
of the constraint with the removable-from-the-constraint <span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
variables no longer present. Is this the best approach? I'm worried that I'll end up spending a lot of time creating new local constraints. I guess I'm interested if there is a 'nice' way of locally removing locks on variables.</span></div>
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James</div>
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James Cussens</div>
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