Semicolons in a class definition

Question

I was reading this gotw and here\'s a code sample from there:

struct X {
  static bool f( int* p )
  {
    return p && 0[p] and not p[1:>>p[2];         


        

Answer 1

; is an empty statement. You can have as many empty statements as you want. It is absolutely correct.

int foobar(int arg)
{
    return 0;
};

is the same as

int foobar(int arg)
{
    return 0;
}
/*DO NOTHING*/;

Similar question: Why are empty expressions legal in C/C++?

Edit:

A declaration of a member is also a statement. So empty statement inside class is something like an << empty >> declaration statement inside class :)