From 71ec7b39630de6be9b1e61fe911b67a87609c5ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Ettlinger <romanett98@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:54:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BinaryDecoder: empty arrays as collection expressions

Review feedback on #4849: return [] instead of Array.Empty<T>(); for an
array return type it is the same shared instance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/Opc.Ua.Types/Encoders/BinaryDecoder.cs | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Opc.Ua.Types/Encoders/BinaryDecoder.cs b/src/Opc.Ua.Types/Encoders/BinaryDecoder.cs
index 8d6dcc29d2..1a55015d86 100644
--- a/src/Opc.Ua.Types/Encoders/BinaryDecoder.cs
+++ b/src/Opc.Ua.Types/Encoders/BinaryDecoder.cs
@@ -2435,7 +2435,7 @@ namespace Opc.Ua
             // an empty array is immutable: all share one instance.
             if (length == 0)
             {
-                return Array.Empty<T>();
+                return [];
             }
 
             int capacity = GetInitialArrayCapacity<T>(length);
@@ -2534,7 +2534,7 @@ namespace Opc.Ua
         {
             if (length == 0)
             {
-                return Array.Empty<T>();
+                return [];
             }
 
             // The caller verified the length against the remaining bytes. If