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@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ class BlankSlate
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     '<=>' => 'spaceship',
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     '==' => 'equalequal',
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     '===' => 'tripleequal',
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-    '=~' => 'regexmatch'
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+    '=~' => 'regexmatch',
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+    '`'  => 'backtick',
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   } unless defined? MethodMapping
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 end
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@@ -29,8 +30,8 @@ def BlankSlate superclass = nil
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       instance_methods.sort.each { |m|
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         unless m =~ /^__/
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           mname = "__#{::BlankSlate::MethodMapping[m.to_s] || m}"
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-          begin ; class_eval "alias :#{mname} :#{m}" ; rescue SyntaxError ; end # we need this rescue to survive aliasing weird 
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-                                                                                # methods names like `
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+          class_eval "alias :#{mname} :'#{m}'" 
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+          
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           undef_method m
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         end
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       }
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@@ -38,4 +39,4 @@ def BlankSlate superclass = nil
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   else
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     BlankSlate
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   end
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-end
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\ No newline at end of file
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+end