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Fixing a mismatched square bracket typo in src/libstd/slice.rs #14533

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Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ These traits include `ImmutableVector`, and `MutableVector` for the `&mut [T]`
case.

An example is the method `.slice(a, b)` that returns an immutable "view" into
a vector or a vector slice from the index interval `[a, b)`:
a vector or a vector slice from the index interval `[a, b]`:
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This isn't a typo. Conventionally, the notation [ means "inclusive" and the ) means "exclusive". I.e. [a,b] is {a, a+1, ..., b-1, b} while [a,b) is just {a, a+1, ..., b-1}.

The latter is exactly the behaviour that .slice has.

(I'm going to close, but thanks for reading our docs closely and taking the time to submit a patch! ❤️ )

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Good to know! Thanks!


```rust
let numbers = [0, 1, 2];
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