[bug #65895] Expression order matters?

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #65895 (group findutils):

Sorry I didn't make myself clear enough. I wasn't suggesting that "find .
-delete" stop working. I was suggesting that it become an error for -delete to
be followed by one or more pure predicate options (e.g. -name) but no
side-effect options (e.g. -exec). It's not the same thing, since such commands
would never have been intentional or valid. Even if someone did want to delete
all files and list a subset of them (for example), they would find that that
didn't work, presumably because the files are deleted before their names are
checked (I just tried "touch a b c; find . -delete -name a" and there was no
output but I expected it to output "./a" if there was any point in having pure
predicate options after -delete).


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