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(I think the idea of "class for which there is no ref type"
is a non-starter; for all of the types you talk about
(vectors, etc), you could make the same argument for `int`,
but no one is saying we don't need `Integer`. I think what
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<div>There are types which should never be null for different
reasons, for those types having a reference projection is an
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<div>A nullable int is something useful hence we need Integer,
sadly not all the value types are like this.</div>
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Yes, they are. If you ever want to call a method reflectively on a
value object, you have to pass it to Method::invoke, which takes an
Object. That's a reference type. <br>
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