Github user fhueske commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-flink/pull/20#issuecomment-46162167
We don't need the initial value for GroupReduce ( != grouped Reduce).
If an initial value is required for GroupReduce, it can be coded in the
GroupReduceFunction.
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