He isn&#x27;t saying you need a <i>semicolon</i> in particular, but rather <i>something</i> should be used for redundancy so when a user makes an error it is detectable. The semicolon is just an example.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;ref&#x2F;spec#Semicolons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;ref&#x2F;spec#Semicolons</a><p>Go uses semicolons, they can be dropped in place of a newline (NB: So instead of a semicolon, a newline becomes the redundancy he speaks of) under specific conditions.