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What's prompting this post is the keyword "enhancement spot".
Really bothers me, unless one thinks of a "spot" as a "gathering-place", as in the English usage "night-spot" for a club or "hot-spot" for a place where a dog's skin allergies flare-up.
I mean - the only "spot" that an "enhancement spot" defines is a node in a navigation tree underneath a package in SE80. It's a bureaucratic notion, not a functional notion. There are no actual "spots" outside of the navigation trees under SE80 packages ... the "spots" in the code are "points".
So in my opinion (which as you all know is ALWAYS a "humble" opinion (heh heh heh)), maybe "enhancement node" would have better reflected the true purpose of the construct.
And even if you don't agree with me in this particular case, I'm sure you can think of other cases where similar semantic problems arise.
So - it strikes me that it would be easy for ABAP product mgrs to pass new nomenclature past the SDN mentors, to see if an SAP first-draft choice is raising too much semantic noise.
Disclaimer:
I have "no dog in this hunt" ... to use Mark Finnern's delightful term, I've been a "sleeping mentor" for almost two years no (i.e. I've been "defrocked" for some time now ...)
djh

Or an adhoc Coffee Corner committee which directly advises the board based on recent contributions?
How about (currently topical):
enhancement-lbw
enhancement-duck
enhancement-silly_mid
enhancement-howzay. "reserved for WDA
enhancement-rain. "can only be caught by exiting the main program
etc...
Just a thought...
Cheers,
Julius
Edited by: Julius Bussche on Mar 31, 2011 9:25 PM

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