Updated views topic

[timothymcmackin]

Working on a topic on views that would fit with the opentezos organization so we could reuse the content.

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[NicNomadic]

I would like to leave a new comment on this phrase but I cannot in github:

Because views run synchronously, off-chain users can ask a node to run a view and return the result immediately; this is a convenient way to get information from a smart contract.

In fact, the sync model has nothing to do here. We just want to say that off-chain users can also use them and how:

Off-chain users can also run a view by using the Octez client run view command; this is a convenient way to get information from a smart contract.

[timothymcmackin]

I would like to leave a new comment on this phrase but I cannot in github:

Because views run synchronously, off-chain users can ask a node to run a view and return the result immediately; this is a convenient way to get information from a smart contract.

In fact, the sync model has nothing to do here. We just want to say that off-chain users can also use them and how:

Off-chain users can also run a view by using the Octez client run view command; this is a convenient way to get information from a smart contract.

Updated to:

Off-chain users can run a view without creating a transaction, which is a convenient way to get information from a smart contract. For example, you can use the Octez client run view command to run a view from the command line.