fn print(self) -> Self { println!("{:?}", self); self }
You can do it nicely, so all you need is to add one `derive` to a type declaration, and then you will be able to insert .print() into the chain.
It is like print in lisps, might be really handy for the debug printing.
Naming intermediates can sometimes make things clearer, but also it can make things less clear. Often there is no good name, or the good name is just as long as the code that made it.
As to derive for each type, I already use `#[derive(Debug)]` for most of my types, to be able to print them with {:?} in format/println!. Though you are right in the sense, that it would be great to make such a method a part of Debug trait. But I personally have never needed it, so maybe complications of Debug trait would be the over-engineering you speak about.
From other hand I do not like variables. Variables are complications of code, and complications like this make it impossible to grasp code on the first sight. There are a lot of cases when you need a variable, and it is not apparent on the first sight which case is it. You need to stop and think. I do not like to think just to find that there was no reason to think. Intelligence is a constrained resource, you need to use it wisely.