I agree with Elliotte and his example with parenthesis. I do not
consider "unnecessary parenthesis" as a violation, since they sometime
improve code readability. The last time that I used PMD in a big project
(years ago), we had thousands of warnings reported as "violations" that
we considered
Maybe. Maybe not. I don't think most of these can be simply assumed to
be correct. For instance "Unnecessary parentheses" can nonetheless be
extremely helpful in clarifying code. Removing them is in no way a
best practice. Sometimes it's a good idea. Sometimes it's actively
harmful. The same is tru
