SKIP with ORDER BY fails when direction is not specified

[odbuser2]

orientdb-1.6.0-SNAPSHOT (within a few days)

The following query:
select from V order by x SKIP 5 LIMIT 10

Results in:
com.orientechnologies.orient.core.sql.OCommandSQLParsingException: Error on parsing command at position #32: Ordering mode 'SKIP' not supported. Valid is 'ASC', 'DESC' or nothing ('ASC' by default)
Command: select from V order by x SKIP 5 LIMIT 10

However, the following queries all work:
select from V order by x LIMIT 10
select from V order by x LIMIT 10 SKIP 5
select from V order by x ASC SKIP 5 LIMIT 10

It is a syntax parsing issue with the location of SKIP. Oddly enough, LIMIT can follow an order by without the direction specified.