diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 76f389041c..397a84214d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Sep 30 16:53:55 2008  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* parse.y (stmt): returns non zero.  [ruby-dev:36633]
+
 Tue Sep 30 13:19:01 2008  Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net>
 
 	* test/rubygems/test_gem_installer.rb: remove extra call to setup to
diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index ad4c8c3c6b..6b2914208a 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ stmt		: keyword_alias fitem {lex_state = EXPR_FNAME;} fitem
 							    $4);
 			/* NEW_PREEXE($4)); */
 			/* local_pop(); */
-			$$ = 0;
+			$$ = NEW_BEGIN(0);
 		    /*%
 			$$ = dispatch1(BEGIN, $4);
 		    %*/