This article has very little content beyond a vague complaint about the keyword 'this' without actually showing of examples of the problem. It is not as if you

This article has very little content beyond a vague complaint about the keyword 'this' without actually showing of examples of the problem. It is not as if you have to look far javascript awkwardness - you just have to live with some small but ugly workaround. My guess in this case aliasing "self" to "this" at the top level of deeply nested objects would probably solve the problem.