documentcloud/underscore — comment on commit 0d4b1247c45083c695cab4242c084a97aa600221
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By josscrowcroft:

Tend to agree with this, but on the fence about removing the similar lines that I stuck in some of my JS micro libs, since they seem to work great. Was taking underscore as a best practice at the time.. Guess it's different here because of underscore's serving as Backbone's dependency.

I'd say if removing this it'd be nice to add a note in the docs about AMD, perhaps linking to some article explaining how to set up that easy shim which would export underscore and Backbone in `noConflict` for when people need it.