Vec.get example in the documentation

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Could someone please explain why is there [..] in the last line of the following example involving getting the slice of a vector by range?

let v = [10, 40, 30];
assert_eq!(Some(&40), v.get(1));
assert_eq!(Some(&[10, 40][..]), v.get(0..2));

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[10, 40] has the type [i32; 2], but Option<[i32; 2]> isn't comparable to Option<&[i32]>. The &v[..] explicitly turns the [i32; 2] into a &[i32].

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so v.get(a..b) returns Option(&[T]), where T is the type of Vec(T) ?
If so, fine, thank you. I had trouble digging that information out of too many layers of abstractions, even in the examples.

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Yep, similarly to how indexing behaves.

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