cmd: prefer nil slices over zero-length slices (#19077)

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/cmd/geth/monitorcmd.go b/cmd/geth/monitorcmd.go
index e4ba96a7a..34e090e1e 100644
--- a/cmd/geth/monitorcmd.go
+++ b/cmd/geth/monitorcmd.go
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ func retrieveMetrics(client *rpc.Client) (map[string]interface{}, error) {
 // resolveMetrics takes a list of input metric patterns, and resolves each to one
 // or more canonical metric names.
 func resolveMetrics(metrics map[string]interface{}, patterns []string) []string {
-	res := []string{}
+	var res []string
 	for _, pattern := range patterns {
 		res = append(res, resolveMetric(metrics, pattern, "")...)
 	}
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ func resolveMetrics(metrics map[string]interface{}, patterns []string) []string
 // resolveMetrics takes a single of input metric pattern, and resolves it to one
 // or more canonical metric names.
 func resolveMetric(metrics map[string]interface{}, pattern string, path string) []string {
-	results := []string{}
+	var results []string
 
 	// If a nested metric was requested, recurse optionally branching (via comma)
 	parts := strings.SplitN(pattern, "/", 2)
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ func resolveMetric(metrics map[string]interface{}, pattern string, path string)
 // expandMetrics expands the entire tree of metrics into a flat list of paths.
 func expandMetrics(metrics map[string]interface{}, path string) []string {
 	// Iterate over all fields and expand individually
-	list := []string{}
+	var list []string
 	for name, metric := range metrics {
 		switch metric := metric.(type) {
 		case float64:
diff --git a/cmd/geth/usage.go b/cmd/geth/usage.go
index 0b5c6fd90..a26203716 100644
--- a/cmd/geth/usage.go
+++ b/cmd/geth/usage.go
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ func init() {
 					categorized[flag.String()] = struct{}{}
 				}
 			}
-			uncategorized := []cli.Flag{}
+			var uncategorized []cli.Flag
 			for _, flag := range data.(*cli.App).Flags {
 				if _, ok := categorized[flag.String()]; !ok {
 					if strings.HasPrefix(flag.GetName(), "dashboard") {