diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index b380d94..5f206d3 100755
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 May. 9 2018
 Fixed a crash bug in invalid conditional expression with class member, thanks to AaBc for pointing it out
+Fixed a wrong error with the VAL statement
 
 Apr. 20 2018
 Avoided a warning when a C++ compiler refers char to unsigned
diff --git a/core/my_basic.c b/core/my_basic.c
index a7bdfc0..c5ba2b1 100755
--- a/core/my_basic.c
+++ b/core/my_basic.c
@@ -17789,9 +17789,9 @@ static int _std_val(mb_interpreter_t* s, void** l) {
 		}
 	}
 
+_exit:
 	mb_check(mb_attempt_close_bracket(s, l));
 
-_exit:
 	return result;
 }