diff --git a/bin-compiler/src/main.rs b/bin-compiler/src/main.rs
index 9d421391bbbfe7bba11ac52aa9a595816a45deda..693d0141612a39b744eb31e376c333ccc045af72 100644
--- a/bin-compiler/src/main.rs
+++ b/bin-compiler/src/main.rs
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ fn main() {
 
         if let Err(err) = builder.add(input_file.to_string(), file_buffer.clone()) {
             println!("FAILED (to tokenize file)\nbecause:\n{}", err);
+            return;
         }
 
         println!("Success");