studgeek/backbone — comment on commit 111f5903ff0c34efb51aead4167909107188e4ce
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By studgeek:

That does seem to the more common name, I personally have never liked it because it so different from "this" and because it reminds me how much I miss Smalltalk :).
All that said, the right choice choice is to go with the flow and even better would be consistency with existing backbone.js code. And that seems to be using ```_.bind```. So I will tweak it over to that (even though it may be a bit confusing in this context) and update the branch.
Thanks for suggestion, d.
PS, Why oh why did JS do this to us? IMHO, the global binding of this is the worst aspect of JS language - and it has a lot of them :).