delete from table limit @var; is not working

"qwerq qerq" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
The following command:
delete from table limit @var; 
says syntax error... why?
-- Server version	4.0.17-max-debug

Thank you all,
Sergey1

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