Semicolon after class declaration braces

Question

In C++ classes, why the semi-colon after the closing brace? I regularly forget it and get compiler errors, and hence lost time. Seems somewhat superfluous to me, which is un

Answer 1

I guess it's because classes are declarations, even when they need braces for grouping. And yes, there's the historical argument that since in C you could do

struct
{
  float x;
  float y;
} point;

you should in C++ be able to do a similar thing, it makes sense for the class declaration to behave in the same way.