view type

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Typed non-owning logical coordinate space over buffer storage with optional address layout. Executed element accesses require natural physical scalar alignment unless align(...) explicitly reduces it. Forming or transporting a view implies no access or address promise.

Property	Value
Representation	view
Semantic role	ordinary
Target contracts	—

Parameters

Name	Kind	Cardinality	Description
dims	shape	required	—
element_type	scalar	required	—
layout	encoding	optional	—
alignment	alignment	optional	Positive power-of-two byte alignment no greater than the physical scalar's natural alignment. Omission requires natural alignment. The requirement applies only to executed element accesses.