From bd5353024f51610072955066549f3682e894ee83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:05:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Helpful suggestions from the linter

---
 router/gossip.go | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/router/gossip.go b/router/gossip.go
index 0e345587..684bb21d 100644
--- a/router/gossip.go
+++ b/router/gossip.go
@@ -60,9 +60,8 @@ func (sender *GossipSender) run() {
 		case pending := <-sender.cell:
 			if pending == nil { // receive zero value when chan is closed
 				return
-			} else {
-				sender.send(pending)
 			}
+			sender.send(pending)
 		case ch := <-sender.flushch:
 			sender.flush()
 			close(ch)
@@ -324,7 +323,7 @@ func (c *GossipChannel) log(args ...interface{}) {
 
 func (router *Router) sendPendingGossip() {
 	// copy the senders so we don't hold the lock for long
-	allSenders := make([]*GossipSender, 0)
+	var allSenders []*GossipSender
 	for _, channel := range router.GossipChannels {
 		channel.Lock()
 		for _, sender := range channel.senders {