diff --git a/lib/parse.js b/lib/parse.js
index 04ec692d..3dd7f3e2 100644
--- a/lib/parse.js
+++ b/lib/parse.js
@@ -1418,8 +1418,10 @@ function parse($TEXT, options) {
                 tokenizer_S.next();
                 next();
                 segments.push(expression());
-                if (!is("punc", "}"))
-                    token_error(tokenizer_S.token, "Unexpected token " + tokenizer_S.token.type + " «" + tokenizer_S.token.value + "»" + ", expected punc «}»");
+                if (!is("punc", "}")) {
+                    // force error message
+                    expect("}");
+                }
                 continue;
             }
             segment += ch;