diff --git a/packages/babel-parser/src/tokenizer/index.js b/packages/babel-parser/src/tokenizer/index.js
index 39d22075a6fe..a8807db8d54d 100644
--- a/packages/babel-parser/src/tokenizer/index.js
+++ b/packages/babel-parser/src/tokenizer/index.js
@@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ export default class Tokenizer extends CommentsParser {
     radix: number,
     len?: number,
     forceLen?: boolean,
-    allowNumSeparator?: boolean | "bail",
+    allowNumSeparator?: boolean | "bail" = true,
   ): number | null {
     const { n, pos } = readInt(
       this.input,