There is not always "the" table.

How does your coding style work if you join into multiple tables? (because in reality you join the new table with the joined result of the previous tables, and hence can reference any combination of any previous table columns, unless you group your joins with parentheses)

  select
      ...
  from
      table1 t1
  join
      table2 t2 on t2.colx = t1.colx
  join
      table3 t3 on (t3.coly, t3.colz) = (t1.coly, t2.colz)