diff --git a/src/parser.cpp b/src/parser.cpp
index e98832034..5ada6d298 100644
--- a/src/parser.cpp
+++ b/src/parser.cpp
@@ -3490,6 +3490,9 @@ gb_internal Ast *parse_unary_expr(AstFile *f, bool lhs) {
 	case Token_Mul: // Used for error handling when people do C-like things
 	{
 		Token token = advance_token(f);
+		if (token.kind == Token_Not) {
+			skip_possible_newline(f);
+		}
 		Ast *expr = parse_unary_expr(f, lhs);
 		return ast_unary_expr(f, token, expr);
 	}
diff --git a/src/tokenizer.cpp b/src/tokenizer.cpp
index ffa53abb5..2ba25b297 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer.cpp
+++ b/src/tokenizer.cpp
@@ -1114,6 +1114,7 @@ semicolon_check:;
 		/*fallthrough*/
 	case Token_Increment:
 	case Token_Decrement:
+	case Token_Not:
 		/*fallthrough*/
 		t->insert_semicolon = true;
 		break;