# SE-0261: Identifiable Protocol

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0261-identifiable-protocol/26602>\
**Category:** Proposal Reviews\
**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0261-identifiable-protocol/26602 "2019-07-03T21:24:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/jayton/32/5592_2.png) [@jayton](https://forums.swift.org/u/jayton)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0261-identifiable-protocol/26602/2 "2019-07-03T21:45:46Z")

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To quote myself:

> [@Move SwiftUI's Identifiable protocol and related types into the standard library](https://forums.swift.org/t/move-swiftuis-identifiable-protocol-and-related-types-into-the-standard-library/25713/56):
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> Could you summarize these discussions? In particular, I’m interested in the removal of identifiedValue, which would seem to make it impossible to implement Collection.identified(by:) (which seems generally useful) in terms of this protocol. Will SwiftUI have an additional abstraction over Identifiable?

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