Semicolons and Positioning
In Java, the semicolon is a separator that is used to terminate a statement. That is, each individual statement must be ended with a semicolon. It indicates the end of one logical entity.
As you know, a block is a set of logically connected statements that are surrounded by opening and closing braces. A block is not terminated with a semicolon. Since a block is a group of statements, with a semicolon after each statement, it makes sense that a block is not terminated by a semicolon; instead, the end of the block is indicated by the closing brace.
Java does not recognize the end of the line as a terminator. For this reason, it does not matter where on a line you put a statement. For example,
is the same as the following, ...
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