What's the advantage of #selector update in Swift 2.3?

Question

I can\'t see a problem with just writing the method name as a string. Im just curious as to why this is better?

Answer 1

The #selector update lets you use autocomplete. When using string literals, you could add a typo which would create a run-time error.

Just to add, when using the migration tool in Xcode, Xcode will change your selector to something like:

#selector(MyController.myMethod)

It's acceptable to remove the class' name which makes it a little cleaner, like so:

#selector(myMethod)