Rajeev
> How about adding this to the definition of a view:
>
> The pattern described by a filetype is repeated, beginning
> at displacement, to define the view. The pattern of
> repetition is defined to be the same pattern that
> MPI_TYPE_CONTIGUOUS would produce if it were passed the
> filetype and an arbitarily large count. Figure 10.1
> shows how the tiling works; note that the filetype in this
> example must have an explicit lower bound set in order
> for the intial hole to be repeated in the view.