[ktizo]

Surely the environment is the spec.

If he wants his code to work with this particular minifier, he should include the semicolon, nothing more, nothing less.

Is a bit like trying to speak in official french. It might be correct according to the officials charged with protecting the french language, but you will sound extremely odd to most french people.

[stcredzero]

I've heard that in Korea, there's one national standard exam for English that's always been graded incorrectly, so everyone learns the incorrect answer when studying for the test.