I have a directive which has an isolated scope and a template.
Although the bindings in the template refer to the isolated scope as they should, scope() and data() do not show this scope.

For all purposes the scope of the template is indeed the isolated scope, so I'd expect scope() to return it (or at least to see it in data()).

This makes debugging a bit difficult.

See
http://jsfiddle.net/yarontt/S5bnE/