diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Form/ChoiceList/ORMQueryBuilderLoader.php b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Form/ChoiceList/ORMQueryBuilderLoader.php
index 30263ea7e3..6f688a904e 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Form/ChoiceList/ORMQueryBuilderLoader.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Form/ChoiceList/ORMQueryBuilderLoader.php
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class ORMQueryBuilderLoader implements EntityLoaderInterface
      */
     public function getEntitiesByIds($identifier, array $values)
     {
-        $qb = clone ($this->queryBuilder);
+        $qb = clone $this->queryBuilder;
         $alias = current($qb->getRootAliases());
         $parameter = 'ORMQueryBuilderLoader_getEntitiesByIds_'.$identifier;
         $where = $qb->expr()->in($alias.'.'.$identifier, ':'.$parameter);
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
index 6fc9b8b5f7..1b6eaa68cd 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
@@ -428,13 +428,13 @@ class Filesystem
      */
     public function isAbsolutePath($file)
     {
-        return (strspn($file, '/\\', 0, 1)
+        return strspn($file, '/\\', 0, 1)
             || (strlen($file) > 3 && ctype_alpha($file[0])
                 && substr($file, 1, 1) === ':'
                 && (strspn($file, '/\\', 2, 1))
             )
             || null !== parse_url($file, PHP_URL_SCHEME)
-        );
+        ;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Iterator/SortableIterator.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Iterator/SortableIterator.php
index b32ac8d6df..fa3458077a 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Iterator/SortableIterator.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Iterator/SortableIterator.php
@@ -55,15 +55,15 @@ class SortableIterator implements \IteratorAggregate
             };
         } elseif (self::SORT_BY_ACCESSED_TIME === $sort) {
             $this->sort = function ($a, $b) {
-                return ($a->getATime() - $b->getATime());
+                return $a->getATime() - $b->getATime();
             };
         } elseif (self::SORT_BY_CHANGED_TIME === $sort) {
             $this->sort = function ($a, $b) {
-                return ($a->getCTime() - $b->getCTime());
+                return $a->getCTime() - $b->getCTime();
             };
         } elseif (self::SORT_BY_MODIFIED_TIME === $sort) {
             $this->sort = function ($a, $b) {
-                return ($a->getMTime() - $b->getMTime());
+                return $a->getMTime() - $b->getMTime();
             };
         } elseif (is_callable($sort)) {
             $this->sort = $sort;
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Session/Storage/Proxy/AbstractProxy.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Session/Storage/Proxy/AbstractProxy.php
index 1036818277..463677b55a 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Session/Storage/Proxy/AbstractProxy.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Session/Storage/Proxy/AbstractProxy.php
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ abstract class AbstractProxy
      */
     public function isSessionHandlerInterface()
     {
-        return ($this instanceof \SessionHandlerInterface);
+        return $this instanceof \SessionHandlerInterface;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Intl/DateFormatter/DateFormat/FullTransformer.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Intl/DateFormatter/DateFormat/FullTransformer.php
index 3c3410e879..84d5179e57 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Intl/DateFormatter/DateFormat/FullTransformer.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Intl/DateFormatter/DateFormat/FullTransformer.php
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ class FullTransformer
      */
     public function isQuoteMatch($quoteMatch)
     {
-        return ("'" === $quoteMatch[0]);
+        return "'" === $quoteMatch[0];
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/GetSetMethodNormalizer.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/GetSetMethodNormalizer.php
index 4adca3fe59..f4a8fb7279 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/GetSetMethodNormalizer.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/GetSetMethodNormalizer.php
@@ -242,10 +242,10 @@ class GetSetMethodNormalizer extends SerializerAwareNormalizer implements Normal
      */
     private function isGetMethod(\ReflectionMethod $method)
     {
-        return (
+        return
             0 === strpos($method->name, 'get') &&
             3 < strlen($method->name) &&
             0 === $method->getNumberOfRequiredParameters()
-        );
+        ;
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Yaml/Parser.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Yaml/Parser.php
index 94a1628afa..614bfedce5 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Yaml/Parser.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Yaml/Parser.php
@@ -670,6 +670,6 @@ class Parser
      */
     private function isStringUnIndentedCollectionItem()
     {
-        return (0 === strpos($this->currentLine, '- '));
+        return 0 === strpos($this->currentLine, '- ');
     }
 }