Aliases should be to .call about underscore

That's a nice thought, but I'm afraid that pulling off a reference to Function#call isn't going to get you the original method -- it's just going to get you a broken version of call.

slice = Array.prototype.slice ;
sliceCall = Array.prototype.slice.call;

slice.call([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 2)
=> [3, 4, 5]

sliceCall([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 2)
=> TypeError: Type error

Closing the ticket.

[jdunck]

Well, I was thinking
sliceCall = _.bind(slice.call, slice)
but I guess that doesn't save anything since .apply still has to be run in the func returned by .bind. :-/

Sure, but an extra function invocation is slower than a property access in any case: