EOF
Speech parts
1. EOF - Noun
2. EOF - Proper noun
Meaning
(computing) Initialism of end of file.
(computing) Initialism of end of field.
(computing) Initialism of Enterprise Objects Framework.
(military, historical) Initialism of Elswick Ordnance Factory.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Another package developed on OpenStep was Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF), a tremendously powerful (for the time) object-relational mapping product.
If the lookahead is *, it is in rule 3, so the parser shifts in the * and advances to state 5. If the lookahead is eof, it is at the end of rule 1 and rule 0, so the parser is done.
Critics of this change argue that most of the power of EOF was a side effect of its Objective-C roots, and that EOF lost the beauty or simplicity it once had.
EOF and Core Data Despite their common origins, the two technologies diverged, with each technology retaining a subset of the features of the original Objective-C code base, while adding some new features.
Here these include + * and int for any integer constant, and id for any identifier name, and eof for end of input file.
EOF 1.0 was the first product released by NeXT using the Foundation Kit and introduced autoreleased objects to the developer community.