Items Directive VS Items class

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I noticed something about the Item directive that seems odd. When I used the directive, the standard ion-chevron-left isn’t applied. But when just the item class is applied to an A tag, everything appears as is. Is this on purpose or just an accident?

Here’s a plunkr to demonstrate

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Its not on purpose, I created an issue for it:

Thanks for pointing that out.