[MangoTux]

I'm taking a C++ class, and one of my classmates mentioned that there was a way to get the user's input at the same time as calling a method, but he forgot how to do it. I'm just wondering how that's written (if possible), and if it's more/less practical than sending regular input into a method.

[Skydiver]

I doubt that it is happening simultaneously. What is happening is that the computer is evaluating the parameters that need to go into the callstack prior to the function call. If a parameter involves a function call, then that function will be called as part of the evaluation.

void print(char ch)
{
    putchar(ch);
}

int main()
{
    print(getchar());
    return 0;
}

How useful it is depends on whether in makes your code clearer and easier to understand. In the above example, it's pretty obvious what is happening because there is a single parameter. But if you have a lot of parameters, the order of evaluation of the parameters is undefined and up to the compiler.