#38 messconst vs (old) messagebox

all my previous reports involved messagebox. now i'm
trying the class formerly known as messconst (now
called just "message" ?). Here are the weird things
i've found:

clicking messagebox "(3 3)" appears to be sending a
message with selector "(" ?? but that is sometimes
magically converted to a tuple? i don't really know; i
am just looking at the spacing in the output of
[display] and [print]. sending "3 3" to that shows "(3
3)" but sending "(3 3)" shows "( 3 3 )"

clicking messconst "(3 3)" appears to do the same as
message/messconst "3 3" (note difference) when send to
[display]/[print], except that it's distinguished by
[udpsend]; when received by [udpreceive] and
[display]'d, it appears as a "<bang>" or "(" depending
on what was shown before!!!

in a messconst, "()" is not allowed, and seems to be a
syntax error, but then:

messconst syntax errors don't appear in the errorlist
dialog!