In Jerboa, my JS-inspired scripting language, there's an alternative to the "function" keyword called "method". The only difference is that "method" functions e

In Jerboa, my JS-inspired scripting language, there's an alternative to the "function" keyword called "method". The only difference is that "method" functions expose `this' and "function" functions don't. This removes the need for the `var self = this' hack and all the related weirdness. An amusing consequence is that if you declare a simple closure as a method, its `this' pointer will be the stackframe of the lexical context where it is called. method test() { print(this.a); } var a = 5; test(); /* implicitly __stackframe__.test() */ (You should not actually do this, of course. It's fun though.) The reason is straightforward: the `this' pointer is the object on whose lookup the closure was found...