I have some javascript code (within an object) :

toggle: function() {

    var me = this;

    var handler = function() { me.progress() };

    me.intervalId = setInterval(handler, me.intervalTime);

    //...More code

}

I'm kind of new to javascript, so doing the above as far as I can tell actually passes the me variable into anonymous the function. I was wanting to see if there is a more declarative way to do so? I wanted something along the line of:

var handler = (function(o) { o.progress();})(this));

but that doesn't seem to be working... Am I missing something? Is this a case where this is the way the language works so just declare a local variable and deal with it?

UPDATE:

The source to my problem was/is my unclear understanding of scope and closures in javascript. I found this article to help me understand a little more.