diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 503d8d8458..a88005024c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-Sun May  1 09:13:23 2005  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+Sun May  1 09:15:17 2005  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ruby.c (process_sflag): replace '-' in variable names with '_'.
 	  [ruby-dev:26107]
 
+	* eval.c (rb_eval), parse.y (arg): reduce fixnum range literal at
+	  parser.  fixed: [ruby-dev:26113]
+
 Sat Apr 30 11:59:25 2005  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* configure.in (RUBY_FUNC_ATTRIBUTE): check for function attribute.
diff --git a/eval.c b/eval.c
index 39d184e1c0..b35c98fd00 100644
--- a/eval.c
+++ b/eval.c
@@ -3226,16 +3226,6 @@ rb_eval(self, n)
 	result = rb_range_new(rb_eval(self, node->nd_beg),
 			      rb_eval(self, node->nd_end),
 			      nd_type(node) == NODE_DOT3);
-	if (node->nd_state) break;
-	if (nd_type(node->nd_beg) == NODE_LIT && FIXNUM_P(node->nd_beg->nd_lit) &&
-	    nd_type(node->nd_end) == NODE_LIT && FIXNUM_P(node->nd_end->nd_lit))
-	{
-	    nd_set_type(node, NODE_LIT);
-	    node->nd_lit = result;
-	}
-	else {
-	    node->nd_state = 1;
-	}
 	break;
 
       case NODE_FLIP2:		/* like AWK */
diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 45c3e648e9..94c9abb6af 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -1760,7 +1760,14 @@ arg		: lhs '=' arg
 		    /*%%%*/
 			value_expr($1);
 			value_expr($3);
-			$$ = NEW_DOT2($1, $3);
+			if (nd_type($1) == NODE_LIT && FIXNUM_P($1->nd_lit) &&
+			    nd_type($3) == NODE_LIT && FIXNUM_P($3->nd_lit)) {
+			    $1->nd_lit = rb_range_new($1->nd_lit, $3->nd_lit, Qfalse);
+			    $$ = $1;
+			}
+			else {
+			    $$ = NEW_DOT2($1, $3);
+			}
 		    /*%
 			$$ = dispatch2(dot2, $1, $3);
 		    %*/
@@ -1770,7 +1777,14 @@ arg		: lhs '=' arg
 		    /*%%%*/
 			value_expr($1);
 			value_expr($3);
-			$$ = NEW_DOT3($1, $3);
+			if (nd_type($1) == NODE_LIT && FIXNUM_P($1->nd_lit) &&
+			    nd_type($3) == NODE_LIT && FIXNUM_P($3->nd_lit)) {
+			    $1->nd_lit = rb_range_new($1->nd_lit, $3->nd_lit, Qtrue);
+			    $$ = $1;
+			}
+			else {
+			    $$ = NEW_DOT3($1, $3);
+			}
 		    /*%
 			$$ = dispatch2(dot3, $1, $3);
 		    %*/