Issue #10883 has been reported by Damien Robert. ---------------------------------------- Feature #10883: Passing a block to itself https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10883 * Author: Damien Robert * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: ---------------------------------------- In the discussion of [itself](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6373) some people proposed that passing a block to itself could return the value of the block: ~~~ def itself if block_given? yield self else self end end ~~~ It would be very usefull in method chains ~~~~ #this would allow an_array.foo.bar.itself {|x| x[1..x.length-1]}.baz #which flows better than a=an_array.foo.bar a[1..a.length-1].baz ~~~~ -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/