They're not saying that the second snippet is "fixed", they're saying that the auto-indented second snippet highlights the mistake to the reader. Yes there are

They're not saying that the second snippet is "fixed", they're saying that the auto-indented second snippet highlights the mistake to the reader. Yes there are 11 parentheses in both the code snippets because both are "incorrect" in that they're both missing a parenthesis. The GP is trying to point out that since Emacs automatically re-indents the first snippet so that it looks like the second snippet, the reader knows immediately that something "isn't quite right".