My brain clicked this morning, and suddenly the viewitems seems much more natural. I was clearly too tired to be looking at code when I commented last night.
On the other hand, I freely concede the horrificness of the NaN approach! But then, I never intended to put that one in actual code, only to post it on the Internet and marvel at how horrible it was :-)
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