Had use for this today: #returning is a convenience method you'll find in both Facets and ActiveSupport. Jamis' blogged it the other day: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/27/mining-activesupport-object-returning Any one else think this is worthy of standard Ruby? Also, a cool twist on the same concept is #tap. Check out the MenTaLgeniuS: http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/programming/eavesdropping-on-expressions.html T.