If so that is monumentally idiotic. Their parser knows where in the query in terms of lines (and thus must have some concept of the character it is on) but doesn't just *give you the frikkin character ...

When creating a column with a default value of the current UTC instant, the generated MySQL query will fail with a syntax error. Add the FluentMigrator runner, and ...

I was able to reproduce the error, and stripped away a few extra steps of the post you shared that are not strictly required to reproduce, but only if one wants to setup a full dev environment.