[bug #65895] Expression order matters?

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #65895 (group findutils):

find(1) has this at the very start

[...] by evaluating the given expression *from left to right*, according to
the rules of precedence

and later an extra warning about -delete:

*ACTIONS*
  _-delete_
         Delete  files  or directories; true if removal succeeded.  If the
         removal failed, an error message is issued and find's exit status
         will be nonzero (when it eventually exits).

         *Warning:* Don't forget that find evaluates the command line as  an
         expression, so putting -delete first will make find try to delete
         everything below the starting points you specified.



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