Command can't be executed after "history abc"

[chuli]

Hi,
        For bash-3.1 and bash-3.2, I write a script a.sh like this:
Test(){
        history abc
        echo "FAIL"
        }
Test

Execute "bash a.sh", and "FAIL" can't be printed. Why should 'history' be 
designed like this?
I think it's better to continue execute the next command even if history is 
fail. 
(it seems "history abc" will use "get_numeric_arg"  which calls  
"jump_top_level", so "echo FAIL" can't be executed)

Regards
Chu Li