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 do not use such declarations

class MyClass
{
.
.
.
} MyInstance;

But in this case I can understand why is semicolon there.
Because it is like int a; - variable declaration.

Probably for consistence as you can omit 'MyInstance' semicolon stays there.