$timeout & this

[toddmotto]

$timeout & this

[jillesme]

I'll just add my two cents here, because I had a similar question and Todd told me he uses

var vm = this;

Where vm stands for ViewModel, I think it's really nice.

Cheers

[toddmotto]

Indeed I use vm = this;, as the controller is really a ViewModel here.

[johnpapa]

👍 Another reason why I use capture variable. Nice point

[Siyfion]

Yeah, after finding this issue and doing a bit of digging, I stumbled across your styleguide @johnpapa and I've done it the same way you suggest in this case.

@toddmotto might be worth adding something to the docs in the $timeout bit to push people in the right direction?

[toddmotto]

This is more to do with JavaScript and the lexical scope rules this doesn't follow, rather than Angular itself.