The parenthesis will be confusing if there are extra parenthesis surrounding it. Parenthesis could simply be used for grouping compound statements like if (true==true) || true { and the character count could also be reduced.
Before:
<%= if (true) { %>
<!-- some html here -->
<% } %>
After:
<%= if true { %>
<!-- some html here -->
<% } %>
The parenthesis will be confusing if there are extra parenthesis surrounding it. Parenthesis could simply be used for grouping compound statements like
if (true==true) || true {and the character count could also be reduced.Before:
After: