diff --git a/llex.c b/llex.c
index c7a28d52..e4b2d74f 100644
--- a/llex.c
+++ b/llex.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-** $Id: llex.c,v 1.126 2003/10/03 16:05:34 roberto Exp roberto $
+** $Id: llex.c,v 1.127 2003/10/03 16:07:44 roberto Exp roberto $
 ** Lexical Analyzer
 ** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
 */
@@ -69,20 +69,6 @@ void luaX_checklimit (LexState *ls, int val, int limit, const char *msg) {
 }
 
 
-void luaX_errorline (LexState *ls, const char *s, const char *token, int line) {
-  lua_State *L = ls->L;
-  char buff[MAXSRC];
-  luaO_chunkid(buff, getstr(ls->source), MAXSRC);
-  luaO_pushfstring(L, "%s:%d: %s near `%s'", buff, line, s, token); 
-  luaD_throw(L, LUA_ERRSYNTAX);
-}
-
-
-static void luaX_error (LexState *ls, const char *s, const char *token) {
-  luaX_errorline(ls, s, token, ls->linenumber);
-}
-
-
 const char *luaX_token2str (LexState *ls, int token) {
   if (token < FIRST_RESERVED) {
     lua_assert(token == (unsigned char)token);
@@ -108,7 +94,11 @@ static const char *txtToken (LexState *ls, int token) {
 
 
 static void luaX_lexerror (LexState *ls, const char *msg, int token) {
-    luaX_error(ls, msg, txtToken(ls, token));
+  char buff[MAXSRC];
+  luaO_chunkid(buff, getstr(ls->source), MAXSRC);
+  luaO_pushfstring(ls->L, "%s:%d: %s near `%s'",
+                          buff, ls->linenumber, msg, txtToken(ls, token)); 
+  luaD_throw(ls->L, LUA_ERRSYNTAX);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/llex.h b/llex.h
index a97def0a..e37c6f54 100644
--- a/llex.h
+++ b/llex.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-** $Id: llex.h,v 1.47 2003/02/28 17:19:47 roberto Exp roberto $
+** $Id: llex.h,v 1.48 2003/08/27 21:01:44 roberto Exp roberto $
 ** Lexical Analyzer
 ** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
 */
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ TString *luaX_newstring (LexState *LS, const char *str, size_t l);
 int luaX_lex (LexState *LS, SemInfo *seminfo);
 void luaX_checklimit (LexState *ls, int val, int limit, const char *msg);
 void luaX_syntaxerror (LexState *ls, const char *s);
-void luaX_errorline (LexState *ls, const char *s, const char *token, int line);
 const char *luaX_token2str (LexState *ls, int token);