Yes, I am talking in the C++ or Java definition of primitive types, like int, char, float, double, long, bool. It's only meaningless to talk about primitive typ

Yes, I am talking in the C++ or Java definition of primitive types, like int, char, float, double, long, bool. It's only meaningless to talk about primitive types in the context of Ruby because Ruby doesn't have primitive types. Every type in Ruby is an object type.