option -c and semicolon not working as expected

[Skaperen]

experimenting more instead of trying to find subtle rules in the language reference i found that ";" fails when it immediately follows ":" even though a newline can be there.

edit:

Output:
lt1a/forums/3 /home/forums 6> python3.8 -c 'for x in range(4):;    print(x)'
  File "<string>", line 1
    for x in range(4):;    print(x)
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
lt1a/forums/3 /home/forums 7> python3.8 -c 'for x in range(4): pass;print(x)'
0
1
2
3
lt1a/forums/3 /home/forums 8>