JAVA BEGGINER

[Ar Yasoda]

why semicolon in java is not compulsory where as in c++ it is required after the completion of any class.

[David O'Meara]

I'll move this to our beginners forum for you.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch.

The position and presence and absence of semicolons in languages is not fixed by some law. It depends what the designers of the language thought and how they constructed the compiler. Different languages have semicolons in different places.

CR

[Ar Yasoda]

thanks for replying......
but how can jvm can know that the class has been ended..

[Srikanth Ramu]

i guess it should be by } - curly brace

[Campbell Ritchie]

Look in the Java Language Specification section 18.1; push ctrl-F then classBody. You will find:

ClassBody:
{ {ClassBodyDeclaration} }

So the compiler works out the end of the class body by counting { and }. Exactly as srikanth ramu said.
[ April 04, 2007: Message edited by: Campbell Ritchie ]