Compiler doesn't complain when I ended a line with two semicolons. Why?

Question

I thought bad thing would happen when I ended a line like this. But compiler didn\'t even complain. Does anybody have an idea, why this is legal in java.

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Answer 1

Compiler wont complain even when you just create an empty file with .java extension. Its an empty compilation unit and its valid. Same way a semicolon is an empty statement which is valid.