The most confusing thing ever is, of course, the fact that C struct/union and C++ class declarations do require a semicolon after the closing curly bracket. Thi

The most confusing thing ever is, of course, the fact that C struct/union and C++ class declarations do require a semicolon after the closing curly bracket. This is because type declarations are permitted to occur inline in certain contexts, notably as the type specifier in a variable declaration.