Be grateful. That kind of offense in Oracle gets you a generic "Bad SQL" error message and it's up to you to find out where it's bad when you have a 150-column SELECT statement.
Or at least that was the case up until at least Oracle 10. Mainframe-descended products are often like that.
I'm going to be a "small government" candidate. I'll be the government. Just me. No one else.
Don't get me started about those stupid light bulbs.