The parent's constructor is 'Function', which is the constructor that created parent. The comments refer to the parent constructor function, not it's constructor function (that is, the constructor that created it).
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Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.
For Docs, License, Tests, pre-packed downloads, and everything else, really, see: http://backbonejs.org
To suggest a feature, report a bug, or general discussion: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues
Backbone is an open-sourced component of DocumentCloud: https://github.com/documentcloud
Many thanks to our contributors: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/graphs/contributors
Special thanks to Robert Kieffer for the original philosophy behind Backbone. https://github.com/broofa