When would you put a semicolon after a method closing brace?

Question

I\'ve been programming in Java for a while, and I\'ve just come across this syntax for the first time:

public Object getSomething(){return something;}; 
         


        

Answer 1

It's simply an empty statement - it is most likely a typo.

Consider the fact that in all C-based languages, a statement is terminated with a semicolon. A hanging semicolon like this simply terminates the current statement which in this case is nothing.