Insert menu item behaviour

I recently contacted NI support about a -bug report regarding the documentation of the function "Insert menu item".
It declares int he help that the values for "Item Name" is the string which appears in the menu and "Item Tag" is the unique Identifier for the menu item. If only Tag is wired, the names are created automatically otherwise they take the values input on the terminal "Item Names".
I was a bit surprised when a bit of my code behaved differently than I had expected. Apparently an empty string for "Item Name" is NOT created, even if I provide a perfectly valid "Item Tag".
I think this kind of thing needs to be mentioned in the help. I don't want the behvaiour changed because it's actually a cool feature for what I'm doing but I can't reconstruct the real behaviour of the node from the help alone...... Nowhere is the difference in handling of an empty string as opposed to a non-empty string even mentioned.
Am I being too pedantic on this?
Shane
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Hello Shane,
Concerning the Empty String Item Name that doesn't get created.
Did you get in touch with an Applications Engineer about that?
Because at my side (in 2014) it does seem to get created.
Or am I misunderstanding the test you are doing?
Kind Regards,
Thierry C - Applications Engineering Specialist Northern European Region - National Instruments
CLD, CTA
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Attachments:
TestOfInsertMenuItem.vi ‏9 KB
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