what means the find warning about "non-option argument"?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i've never noticed this before:

$ find <dir> -type d -maxdepth 1
find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a
non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-maxdepth
affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after
it).  Please specify options before other arguments.
...

   ???.  i've read that a couple times and i'm still not sure what
it's complaining about.

rday

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