Sure, but it counts regardless of what you're talking about. We don't generally talk about charging data against the TM because they all need data of some sort to do anything interesting. "eval" still gets you there. (Pedantic.)
I should have phrased as "what is the minimum number of characters that need to be seen by a Ruby parser in order to have something Turing equivalent to Ruby without a limited character set?"
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"But what's in that string? That still counts."
Sure, but it counts regardless of what you're talking about. We don't generally talk about charging data against the TM because they all need data of some sort to do anything interesting. "eval" still gets you there. (Pedantic.)
I should have phrased as "what is the minimum number of characters that need to be seen by a Ruby parser in order to have something Turing equivalent to Ruby without a limited character set?"