diff --git a/lib/File/stat.pm b/lib/File/stat.pm
index 863092c93dce..d4993681da08 100644
--- a/lib/File/stat.pm
+++ b/lib/File/stat.pm
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ BEGIN { *warnif = \&warnings::warnif }
 
 our(@EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK, %EXPORT_TAGS);
 
-our $VERSION = '1.09';
+our $VERSION = '1.10';
 
 our @fields;
 our ( $st_dev, $st_ino, $st_mode,
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
 
  use File::stat;
  $st = stat($file) or die "No $file: $!";
- if ( ($st->mode & 0111) && $st->nlink > 1) ) {
+ if ( ($st->mode & 0111) && ($st->nlink > 1) ) {
      print "$file is executable with lotsa links\n";
  }