The 3 solutions that I came up with are:

  - bind
  - function creator outside of the loop called from within
  - create an anon function on each loop iteration that acts like the function creator in #2

The bind is best in terms of memory and simplicity, but will not run on on IE 8 or crappier, so in that case #2 is preferred.

The last one creates anon functions needlessly, but is very compact to write.

5 solution with eval

  function foo(s) {
    a = Array(s);
    for (var i = 0; i < s; i++) {
      a[i] = eval('(function () { return ' + i + '})');
    }
    return a;
  }

fourth solution would be naming the function with the iterator (as in my example below) and calling indexOf(iterator) when the function is invoked