diff --git a/lib/repl.js b/lib/repl.js
index df4a555efe7..2d833c96958 100644
--- a/lib/repl.js
+++ b/lib/repl.js
@@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ var isIncompleteSyntaxErrorMessage = (function() {
         return true;
       }
       if (message === 'Invalid or unexpected token') {
-        return !bailOnIllegalToken(code);
+        return isCodeRecoverable(code);
       }
       return false;
     };
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-repl.js b/test/parallel/test-repl.js
index dbe3b13bd4e..a5f7895e1cd 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-repl.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-repl.js
@@ -457,14 +457,13 @@ function error_test() {
       client: client_unix, send: '(function() {\nif (false) {} /bar"/;\n}())',
       expect: prompt_multiline + prompt_multiline + 'undefined\n' + prompt_unix
     },
-  
     // Newline within template string maintains whitespace.
     { client: client_unix, send: '`foo \n`',
       expect: prompt_multiline + '\'foo \\n\'\n' + prompt_unix },
     // Whitespace is not evaluated.
     { client: client_unix, send: ' \t  \n',
       expect: prompt_unix }
-   ].filter((v) => !common.engineSpecificMessage(v)));
+  ].filter((v) => !common.engineSpecificMessage(v)));
 }
 
 function tcp_test() {