[bug #65895] Expression order matters?

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #65895 (group findutils):

The semantics around evaluation order and precedence in find's command line
are carefully documented even if they're not obvious or intuitive (the ","
operator in particular is unlike other systems).   

Making changes to invalidate a currently-valid find command line is something
we do extremely reluctantly.   The only time we've done it that I can recall
was for POSIX compliance and we still provided a transition period of several
years.

So, we're not going to make "find . -delete" stop working because somebody may
not have read the documentation.


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