Question: basic questions on Maple Record

I really like Maple Record. I think it is one of the hidden gems in Maple. Very useful.

But I have basic questions on it. I just started to learn how to use it. It is very similar to Pascal Record.

1)

r:=Record(a,b);
                       r := Record(a, b)
type(r,'record');
                              true
whattype(r);
                             symbol

Why  type(r,'record') says true, but whattype(r) says symbol?

2)
Why Maple displays the record content to the screen automatically only first time, after it is created, but second time, it only echos the name? So one has to use print() each time to display the content of the record.  Not a big deal, but it is little annoying

r:=Record(a,b);
                       r := Record(a, b)
r;
                               r

print(r);
                          Record(a, b)

r:-a:=5;
                             a := 5
r
                               r

print(r);
                        Record(a = 5, b)

Compare this to say a set type, where it displays the content each time

r:={1,2,3};
                         r := {1, 2, 3}
r
                           {1, 2, 3}

I tried changing max_record_depth but I must be doing something wrong. It still does not display the content

interface(max_record_depth=10)
                               10
r:=Record(a,b);
                       r := Record(a, b)
r;
                               r

3) Why are these two behave the same way

r:=Record("y");
r:-y:=4;

r:=Record('y');
r:-y:=4;

Giving the name of the field as string worked the same way as second example which is a name.  I thought the first one above will not work as field name should be a name according to help.