cmd/gofmt: don't turn nil slices into empty slices during rewriting

The go/ast package uses and guarantees nil slices for optional
elements that weren't present in the parsed source code, such as the
list of return values of a function. Packages using go/ast rely on
this attribute and check for nils explicitly.

One such package is go/printer. In the presence of empty slices
instead of nil slices, it generates invalid code, such as "case :"
instead of "default:". The issues that this CL fixes are all
manifestations of that problem, each for a different syntactic
element.

Fixes #33103
Fixes #33104
Fixes #33105

Change-Id: I219f95a7da820eaf697a4ee227d458ab6e4a80bd
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/187917
Reviewed-by: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
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