=head1 NAME

IO::Prompt -- Interactive validating terminal prompt


=head1 VERSION

This document describes IO::Prompt version 0.0


=head1 SYNOPSIS

    use IO::Prompt;

    my $n = ask('How many bananas?',7);
    say "You said $n bananas";

See F<example.p6> and F<lib/IO/Prompt.pm> for more
examples of usage.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is a generic module for interactive prompting
from the console. You can install it with proto:

    $ cd ~/devel
    $ git clone git://github.com/masak/proto.git
    $ cd proto
    $ ./proto
    $ ./proto install io-prompt
    $ cd ../io-prompt 

    # I assume you have perl6 (rakudo) in your path

    $ PERL6LIB=../proto/lib perl6 Configure.p6
    $ make test
    $ PERL6LIB=lib perl6 example.p6


=head1 FUNCTIONAL INTERFACE

The funtional interface is exported by default.

=over 4

=item B<ask>

=item B<asker>

=back


=head1 METHODS

=over 4

=item B<ask>

=item B<ask_yn>

=item B<ask_int>

=item B<ask_num>

=item B<ask_str>

=back


=head1 PRIVATE METHODS AND ATTRIBUTES

All user IO is done tru these methods. You can override these
methods to create a testable version of the module.

=over 4

=item B<do_prompt>

=item B<do_say>

=back


The default options can be set in the object constructor.

=over 4

=item B<message>

=item B<default>

=item B<type>

=back


=head1 CLASS ATTRIBUTES

You can override these attributes to create a localization
for this module.

=over 4

=item B<lang_prompt_Yn>

=item B<lang_prompt_yN>

=item B<lang_prompt_yn>

=item B<lang_prompt_yn_retry>

=item B<lang_prompt_match_y>

=item B<lang_prompt_match_n>

=item B<lang_prompt_int>

=item B<lang_prompt_int_retry>

=item B<lang_prompt_num>

=item B<lang_prompt_num_retry>

=item B<lang_prompt_str>

=item B<lang_prompt_str_retry>

=back


=head1 CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

IO::Prompt requires no configuration files or environment variables.


=head1 DEPENDENCIES

Requires no external modules. Tested and built with Rakudo Perl 6,
revision 38379 built on parrot 1.1.0-devel.


=head1 AUTHOR

Panu Ervamaa  C<< <pnu@cpan.org> >>


=head1 LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009, Panu Ervamaa C<< <pnu@cpan.org> >>.
All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Rakudo Perl 6 itself.


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