Alternative Syntax for Insert

Alternative Syntax for Insert

Let me show my idea of SQL improvement, that I would like to see. Traditional insert works like that:

insert into table_a
    (column_1, column_2, column_3, column_4)
  values
    (value_1, value_2, value_3, value_4);

What I would like to have is something like that:

insert into table_a
   set column_1 = value_1
      ,column_2 = value_2
      ,column_3 = value_3
      ,column_4 = value_4;

With this syntax code would be easier to maintain. Especially, when you have to add or delete, or find error in insert to table with many columns. Biggest advantage of this would be close relationship between column name and value that will be set for that column. In INSERT that we know it column name and value are quite far from each other, so even for table with 10 columns it might be hard to find corresponding entries.
In PL/SQL there is an workaround to get similar solution:

declare
    v_row table_a%rowtype;
begin
    v_row.column_1 := value_1;
    v_row.column_2 := value_2;
    v_row.column_3 := value_3;
    v_row.column_4 := value_4;
    insert into table_a values v_row;
end;

But it's PL/SQL not pure SQL. I really would like to have this syntax in next Oracle release...

Cheers, Paweł