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I think Kotlin sees the former as, i.e. as 2 declarations: companion object without members and a property:
```
companion object
val yo = "yo"
```

Which seems like a compiler bug to me. Wouldn't the language spec require a `;` inbetween?

I don't think so. There are only a very few places where semicolons are needed. There is no ambiguity from the perspective of the compiler. The companion object declaration is complete: no `{` following `companion object`, so a new declaration can be started immediatly

Typically a statement is ended by a SEMI token which is defined to be semicolon or new line:
<https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/grammar.html#SEMI>

As i am on my phone, i have not checked if this is true for object declarations