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@jishnub jishnub commented Mar 25, 2023

The use of offset in the docstring seems to suggest that the arguments so and do are to be added to firstindex, and these may be 0-based. However, these arguments are actually used as the starting indices. In this case, it's better to use index in the docstring.

@jishnub jishnub changed the title Change offset to indices in (unsafe_)copyto docstring Change offset to linear index in (unsafe_)copyto docstring Mar 25, 2023
@jishnub jishnub added the docs This change adds or pertains to documentation label Mar 25, 2023
@dkarrasch dkarrasch added the arrays [a, r, r, a, y, s] label Mar 25, 2023
@dkarrasch dkarrasch merged commit 88a1fc7 into JuliaLang:master Mar 25, 2023
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