I am analyzing the following two urls from John Resig\'s site, but I am not understanding how giving a name to the anonymous function has made a difference.
The site http://kangax.github.com/nfe/ is a great reference. Yes, as far as it is a function expression the name will only be available inside (e.g. for recursive calls, as in the demonstration) and also helps for debugging (e.g. in stack traces), because it sets the name property of the function.