From 3190a5a7f49b177b0177aacdc6fabc2525eef4da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Ashkenas <jashkenas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:24:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Backbone.View option handling tweak.

---
 backbone.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backbone.js b/backbone.js
index 990eca32..148b1ec1 100644
--- a/backbone.js
+++ b/backbone.js
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@
 
   Backbone.View = function(options) {
     this.modes = {};
-    this.configure(options || {});
+    this.configure(options);
     if (this.options.el) {
       this.el = this.options.el;
     } else {
@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@
     tagName   : 'div',
 
     configure : function(options) {
+      options || (options = {});
       if (this.options) options = _.extend({}, this.options, options);
       if (options.model)      this.model      = options.model;
       if (options.collection) this.collection = options.collection;