Why does this not work?

[TheDGuy via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 15:16:36 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 15:06:53 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> I've battled with a few times, not having any idea what was 
>> going on. I now almost automatically use strip when it's not 
>> working.
>
> This is one of the most frequently asked questions by new 
> users.. I added a tip to my new docs:
>
> http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/std.stdio.readln.html
>
> If you were looking at that for the first time, would you 
> notice it? If no, I can see about moving it or rewording it or 
> something.

If i had known that blog existed. I think your example at the end 
of the page explains the problem really well.
Thanks!