jrburke/backbone — comment on commit 57c2029117649452c6cf4d3337e03f5d52bb8331
File: backbone.js line 1199
By jrburke:

Yes, in fact it is the expected, default behavior in Node. It has been for as long as I can remember, and given the committers' comments on the node module system it will stay that way. All modules are anonymous in Node.