On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:

> On 3 Mar 2009, at 15:08, Wout Mertens wrote:
>
>> On Mar 3, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Manolo Padron Martinez wrote:
>>
>>>> I believe this has been covered in this thread:
>>>> http://markmail.org/thread/lwqfwlscrvilwm34
>>>>
>>>> but I think a totally satisfactory answer was not found.
>>>
>>> Thanks that works for me.
>>
>> Actually now I'm curious where the sum() function comes from. I  
>> can't find it in any Javascript references. Is it something Couch  
>> provides?
>>
>> Answer: grepping through the source showed me it's in main.js.
>>
>> Since this question has been posed more than once, maybe main.js  
>> should have a uniq() function as well?
>
> Patches welcome :) Feel free to submit uniq() to JIRA:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB

Actually it's slightly more difficult than I thought since the most  
efficient way to implement it is by guaranteeing that input is sorted.

Here's a nice implementation:

http://www.code-shop.com/2007/5/14/javascript-uniq

so maybe the uniq() function should take the re-reduce parameter and  
if that's not set, sort the input?

Would that be acceptible for a function in main.js?

Wout.