I've seen this a lot, although personally I've come to prefer a functional programming style with closures for state (i.e. a poor man's Scheme), which means I a

I've seen this a lot, although personally I've come to prefer a functional programming style with closures for state (i.e. a poor man's Scheme), which means I also happen to avoid using "this", but not due to any love of OOP/C#/Java/etc.