New line not recognized as separator between statements

This small program

c = 0
j = 1

is not parsed:

textx.exceptions.TextXSyntaxError: vre-language/examples/1.vm:2:3: Expected '[' or '^|;|\,|\)|$' or '**' or '*' or '/' or '+' or '-' or '<=' or '>=' or '>' or '<' or '!=' or '==' or 'if' or 'for' or 'on' or '^|;' or EOF => 'c = 0 j *= 1 '

These modified inputs are parsed:

c = true
j = 1

c = 0
a = 1

So it has to do with c = 0 j, i.e. the end of line is interpreted as white space and the j from the next line is consumed.