It appears that Perl6 is on its way to becoming a fairly nifty language, with lots of cool features. It would be great if there were some well written literature to go along with a complete implementation. I look forward to both.

Dave, thanks, but don't expect that here. My goal was merely as stated in the beginning. Getting started with working code for a complete program is a bit of a pain at the moment, so I give this simple real-world example to help one a Perl 5 programmer get started. I leave the in-depth explanations to others. I do agree that I could embellish the code with more comments and references to normative docs sources and will probably do so (after BrowserUK produces an improved version of my Perl 5 code).

This approach works for me, but if the consensus is my approach isn't useful to others, then I will remove it.

However, if the approach is found to be useful, I can expand it later to introduce classes and some other Perl 6 features. I also need to add in the introduction (per BrowserUK's comments) a few words on the benefits of Perl 6 over Perl 5.