I can understand MySQL not being 100% compliant with the SQL standard. What I have trouble understanding is why it can't be bothered to throw an error. Imagine

I can understand MySQL not being 100% compliant with the SQL standard. What I have trouble understanding is why it can't be bothered to throw an error. Imagine if your programming language silently ignored some constructs? But it seems to correlate with MySQL's philosophy of being good at silently ignoring problems :(