'In what order does CMake evaluate OR and AND in compound 'if' condition?

The CMake documentation states:

The following syntax applies to the condition argument of the if, elseif and while() clauses.

Compound conditions are evaluated in the following order of precedence: Innermost parentheses are evaluated first. Next come unary tests such as EXISTS, COMMAND, and DEFINED. Then binary tests such as EQUAL, LESS, LESS_EQUAL, GREATER, GREATER_EQUAL, STREQUAL, STRLESS, STRLESS_EQUAL, STRGREATER, STRGREATER_EQUAL, VERSION_EQUAL, VERSION_LESS, VERSION_LESS_EQUAL, VERSION_GREATER, VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL, and MATCHES. Then the boolean operators in the order NOT, AND, and finally OR.

But the following prints 'FALSE':

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22)

project(Test)

if(YES OR NO AND NO)
    message("TRUE")
else()
    message("FALSE")
endif()

I'd expect the expression to evaluate as YES OR (NO AND NO). What's going on?

cmakeoperator-precedence


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