Property with type SEL in Objective-c

Question

I'd like to declare a property with type SEL like this:

@property (nonatomic, assign) SEL mySelector; 

Is "assign" correct here? Perhaps assign can be omitted?

Answer 1

assign is the correct annotation here. You use assign for any primitive types. The alternatives (weak, strong/retain) rely on the property pointing at an object to function. I believe the compiler won't even let you declare the wrong type of property for this. If you really wanted to you could omit the assign as it is the default.