The use of parentheses, even those not required to enforce a desired order of operations, can clarify the intent behind a piece of code. But redundant pairs of parentheses could be misleading, and should be removed.

Noncompliant Code Example

func foo(a bool, y int) int {
  x := (y / 2 + 1)   //Compliant even if the parenthesis are ignored by the compiler

  if a && ((x+y > 0)) {  // Noncompliant
    //...
  }

  return ((x + 1))  // Noncompliant
}

Compliant Solution

func foo(a bool, y int) int {
  x := (y / 2 + 1)

  if a && (x+y > 0) {
    //...
  }

  return (x + 1)
}