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+! Copyright (C) 2009 Jeremy Hughes.
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
+USING: classes help.markup help.syntax kernel quotations words
+alien.marshall.structs strings alien.structs alien.marshall ;
+IN: alien.marshall.structs
+
+HELP: define-marshalled-struct
+{ $values
+    { "name" string } { "vocab" "a vocabulary specifier" } { "fields" "an alist" }
+}
+{ $description "Calls " { $link define-struct } " and " { $link define-struct-tuple } "." } ;
+
+HELP: define-struct-tuple
+{ $values
+    { "name" string }
+}
+{ $description "Defines a subclass of " { $link struct-wrapper } ", a constructor, "
+  "and accessor words."
+} ;