In fact, it surprised me that the compiler would not complain if it saw both a 
text attribute _and_ non-LZX content in a tag that supports text.

On 2010-09-14, at 10:07, Henry Minsky wrote:

> That sounds like a good heuristic
> 
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:18 PM, P T Withington 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> At least in this particular case, it's interesting that the programmer
>> explicitly said `text=""` in the open tag.  I think we could say that if you
>> explicitly assign the text attribute, whether in the open tag as is done
>> here, or as an explicit attribute tag, then the compiler should _not_ try to
>> interpret the body of the tag as the text value.  That would seem to give an
>> easy out for the case where you want to make a one-off text instance with
>> methods -- you just specify the content as the initial value of the text
>> attribute instead.
>> 
>> How does that sound?


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