Engine evaluation changed?

[Richard Gaskin]

Many years ago this script worked:

   if there is a folder AppPath()&"media/" then

Now it only works if I'm more explicit about the path concatenation:

   if there is a folder (AppPath()&"media/") then

I can understand why the engine prefers the params, but I don't 
understand how it changed, or exactly when.

Have any of you seen changes to the order of precedence in expression 
evaluation?

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  Richard Gaskin
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