---
title: 'Using the standard library'
part: 'Part IX — Standard Library and Reusable Design'
partNumber: 9
order: 1
subtitle: 'Imports, aliases, exports, dependency linking, and the std.* map'
---

_Content coming soon._ This chapter introduces explicit symbol imports, aliases, exported
procedures, transitive standard-library dependencies, and the nine bundled `std.*` modules.
It also sets the rule for the rest of this part: learn families and composition patterns, not
a flat catalogue of names.

<Run>{`import std.shapes.starpath as star

let outline = star(7, 24, 11)
up setpos(first(outline)) down
sewpath(outline)`}</Run>

<Checkpoint chapterId="ch-54">Chapter content coming soon.</Checkpoint>