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Ask displays a dialog box containing a question with a text box into which the user can type an answer. "defaultAnswer" will populate the text area with the passed string as the default text in the dialog box.

Usage:

ask "question" [with "defaultAnswer"]
Not Implemented: ask password [clear] "question" [with "defaultAnswer"]
Not Implemented: ask file [promptText] [with [default] "fileName"]

Example:

ask "What is your name" with "No Name"
answer It