possible parser error

I'm using v6.5.  I found out accidentally that the query: <p>update table set field = value' where key =
keyvalue;         --notice the accidental tick <p>silently ignores everything after the tick and does not generate any
kindof syntax error. <br />This quietly clobbered a table by updating the field in every record in the table.  (The
where<br />clause was ignored.) <p>The tick shouldn't have been there, it was just a typing error.  But unless I'm
missingsomething, <br />it seems like it would be good to generate an error like "Unmatched quotes" or some such thing.
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