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+# Examples
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+The `example` directory contains two packages:
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+A [demo](examples/demo) illustrating the basics of Odin.
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+It further contains [all](examples/all), which imports all [core](core) and [vendor](vendor) packages so we can conveniently run `odin check` on everything at once.
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+For additional example code, see the [examples](https://github.com/odin-lang/examples) repository.