This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag 'v1_8_5_6'.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/tags/v1_8_5_6@11355 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index e2982f2c80..7b05c18f46 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -1481,7 +1481,8 @@ primary		: literal
 		    }
 		| tLPAREN compstmt ')'
 		    {
-			$$ = $2;
+			if (!$2) $$ = NEW_NIL();
+			else $$ = $2;
 		    }
 		| primary_value tCOLON2 tCONSTANT
 		    {