The point of the example is that in Zig, that statement is exactly as simple as it looks.
What looks like a field reference (`c.d`) is just a field reference; there are no getters or @property functions that are doing more complicated things.
And similarly with the addition operator, that plus sign is just addition and doesn't call a function somewhere else.
These abstractions are considered useful by the designers of other languages, but they are specifically excluded in Zig. The benefit of not having them being that it's easier to follow the execution flow of the program.
I thought the border restriction was just about having been in China in the last 14 days. Couldn't she get back into the US if she went to a different country first for 14 days?
No. The U.S. refuses to even process visas. Early on, the U.S. initially held her passport (a foreign one at that!) for over a month, preventing travel to countries she had valid visas to. When she eventually did once the passport was returned, the U.S. canceled her appointment, forcing travel back to China. Such foreign visas have now expired. The U.S. continues to allow appointments to be made at embassies and consulates and then cancels them right before. She actually falls into one of the conditional allowances that should get her back, based upon lawsuits from large employers, but the U.S. is not keeping appointments and not processing visas. So whatever they claim is allowed (which is not much), they are blocking that and more on a procedural level, just like they were doing since January before any bans were even in place. They don’t care.
H1Bs and others (at least from China) are banned at a minimum until January 2021.
We are in a similar situation. She’s got a tourist visa though, and while we think it would technically be possible for her to enter the US, we’re kind of afraid to try.
I wonder what the truth is. In this article Kahle makes it sound like they are lending one digital copy for every physical copy that is locked up in a library somewhere and not circulating.
From what I understand that was the original policy but when COVID hit they announced that they were removing those restrictions. Commenters went “you’re gonna get sued” and then archive.org was all surprised Pikachu face when their mailbox filled up with lawsuits.
For the past 7+ years, I have been working as a software developer supporting a US product entering the China market. Salesforce, force.com and the related wed technologies are what I'm most familiar with, but I would be willing to consider projects outside of that scope as well.
Aside from software development, I am a native speaker of American English, and I've also gotten fairly good at Chinese since I've been living in mainland China for the last 10 years.
If anyone out there needs Salesforce/force.com technical expertise, or is hiring for an internationally-focused company or project, I would be interested in hearing from you.
