diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6c8de569cc..3a31c293ad 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Jul 17 18:29:07 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* parse.y (stmt): not to show same error messages twice.
+
 Sat Jul 17 14:18:11 2004  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* string.c (rb_str_match_m): String#match should also take
diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 121251ce1d..adfd7eeed1 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -496,7 +496,6 @@ stmt		: kALIAS fitem {lex_state = EXPR_FNAME;} fitem
 		    }
 		| lhs '=' command_call
 		    {
-			value_expr($3);
 			$$ = node_assign($1, $3);
 		    }
 		| mlhs '=' command_call