TemplateBinding should warn/console log about using bind with references.

[eseidel]

<template id="target" bind="{{ 'foo' as bar }}">{{ bar }}</template>
<template bind ref="target"></template>

Won't show foo. since bind= is ignored on the target template. You'll have to nest another template inside if you want your bind= to work.

[eseidel]

Worked around in my project with eseidel/cycletimes@6919a9d

[arv]

I'm not sure we can warn here. Conceptually it is valid. Your second template might have a model that has a bar property.

[eseidel]

Can you give an example where the bind="{{ 'foo' as bar }}" is not ignored?

[arv]

It would not be ignored when you stamp out #target

[arv]

Keeping this open to see if we can think of when it would we guarantee to be correct to warn.

Another option might be to "inherit" the bind attribute value from the ref template.

[eseidel]

Arv has convinced me in #polymer that it's arguably the responsibility of sorted-table to warn when it sees a bind= on my rowTemplate that it's not going to use it.

https://github.com/stevenrskelton/sortable-table

I doubt it's worth fixing in that case.

[eseidel]

Sorry, feel free to keep it open as you wish.

[tjsavage]

Looks like this is resolved! Closing here.