diff --git a/src/tokenize.jl b/src/tokenize.jl
index 9c19c040..2ab23788 100644
--- a/src/tokenize.jl
+++ b/src/tokenize.jl
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export tokenize, untokenize
 using ..JuliaSyntax: JuliaSyntax, Kind, @K_str, @KSet_str
 
 import ..JuliaSyntax: kind,
-    is_literal, is_error, is_contextual_keyword, is_word_operator
+    is_literal, is_contextual_keyword, is_word_operator
 
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Character-based predicates for tokenization