In Objective-C, you can get a selector at compile time with:

SEL selector = @selector(showHelp);

or at runtime:

NSString* str = @"showHelp";
SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString(str);

There's limited type checking.

In Swift, however you have several options. This does minimum checking that there is a method of the same name:

let _ = Selector("showHelp")

This checks if the method is in the current class:

let _ = #selector(showHelp)

This checks if the method is in the specific class/instance:

let _ = #selector(Login.start)
let _ = #selector(Login.sharedInstance.start)

And this makes the compiler check for arguments (and labels):

let _ = #selector(oneArg(_:)) #single arg
let _ = #selector(twoArg(_:two:)) #two arg

Swift has strong type support and it's worthwhile spending some time to learn about it to reduce run-time programming errors.

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