From 3c697de6182b19d49b910a33b1bc6b0a0e2569b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Teddy Katz <teddy.katz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:50:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Chore: fix incorrect comment about linter.verify return value
 (#10030)

---
 lib/linter.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/linter.js b/lib/linter.js
index 66f4bc35720..ae8706d1264 100644
--- a/lib/linter.js
+++ b/lib/linter.js
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ module.exports = class Linter {
      *      Useful if you want to validate JS without comments overriding rules.
      * @param {boolean} [filenameOrOptions.reportUnusedDisableDirectives=false] Adds reported errors for unused
      *      eslint-disable directives
-     * @returns {Object[]} The results as an array of messages or null if no messages.
+     * @returns {Object[]} The results as an array of messages or an empty array if no messages.
      */
     _verifyWithoutProcessors(textOrSourceCode, providedConfig, filenameOrOptions) {
         const config = providedConfig || {};
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ module.exports = class Linter {
      * @param {function(Array<Object[]>): Object[]} [filenameOrOptions.postprocess] postprocessor for report messages. If provided,
      *      this should accept an array of the message lists for each code block returned from the preprocessor,
      *      apply a mapping to the messages as appropriate, and return a one-dimensional array of messages
-     * @returns {Object[]} The results as an array of messages or null if no messages.
+     * @returns {Object[]} The results as an array of messages or an empty array if no messages.
      */
     verify(textOrSourceCode, config, filenameOrOptions) {
         const preprocess = filenameOrOptions && filenameOrOptions.preprocess || (rawText => [rawText]);