Question

Is it possible to reference the context of the outer function without reassigning the context to some local variable?

For example:

var objects = [];

// populate objects

Foo.prototype.bar = function() {
    var outerObject = this;
    $.each(objects, function () {
        this.someMethod(outerObject);
    });
};

Answer 1

You could use .bind, otherwise, you have to store this with a local variable.

Foo.prototype.bar = function() {
    var outerObject = this;
    var inner = (function () {
        // do something with outerObject
        console.log(this === outerObject);
    }).bind(this);
};

Update:

For your case:

var objects = [];

// populate objects

Foo.prototype.bar = function() {
    $.each(objects, (function (obj) {
        this.someMethod(obj);
    }).bind(this));
};