Can anyone explain difference between dispatch vs sift ?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 26, 2013 at 12:05pm

Sift is more flexible, when you zoom in on it you can add more outputs.

Sift is also more robust as it retains list order. Instead of creating two output lists that contain only the items selected, it will actually include nulls for those items not selected. The combination of Sift and Combine is therefore ideal to mimic conditional statements.

I'd say Sift is to be preferred in almost all cases, however since it is newer I chose to retain Dispatch.

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