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

It is needed after a struct for compatibility reasons, and how would you like this:

struct MyStruct { ... };
class  MyClass  { ... }    //inconsistency