Reading from the keyboard



Ask the user what's her name

When prompting the user with a question it is probably the best to use the 
prompt
 function.
Similarly to 
say
 it prints to the screen but without the newline at the end,
waits for the user to type in something.

It reads up to the ENTER the user presses but passes over only the the part before the
newline. (Perl 5 users could think about it as having autochomp)
examples/scalars/read_stdin.p6
#!/usr/bin/perl6
use v6;


my $name = prompt("Please type in yourname: ");

say "Hello $name";

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