[open-cobol-list] MULTIPLY statement bug ?

[David Essex]

There appears to be a bug in the MULTIPLY statement, format 1, COBOL 85
standard.

Format 1 syntax:
MULTIPLY { identifier-1 | literal-1 } BY ( identifier-n [ROUNDED] )...

The value of identifier-1 or literal-1 is multiplied by the value of
identifier-n, and the product is placed in identifier-n (n > 1).

Example 1 (valid): 
MULTIPLY .10 BY IDNUMBER .

Example 2 (not-valid): 
MULTIPLY IDNUMBER BY .10 .

In example 2, OC version 0.21 for MinGW, did not trap the error.

Is this a bug or was the standard changed for COBOL 200x ?