I'm betting the tweet was a tongue-in-cheek reaction to the situation. Still, it is funny the lengths people will go to to avoid putting a semicolon at the end

I'm betting the tweet was a tongue-in-cheek reaction to the situation. Still, it is funny the lengths people will go to to avoid putting a semicolon at the end of their statements, even when the hacks to get around it are even uglier than the semicolon.