Consider calling the RETURNING parameter RESULT

Good method names are usually so good that the RETURNING parameter does not need a name of its own. The name would do little more than parrot the method name or repeat something obvious.

Repeating a member name can even produce conflicts that need to be resolved by adding a superfluous me->.

" anti-pattern
METHODS get_name
  RETURNING
    VALUE(name) TYPE string.

METHOD get_name.
  name = me->name.
ENDMETHOD.

In these cases, simply call the parameter RESULT, or something like RV_RESULT if you prefer Hungarian notation.

Name the RETURNING parameter if it is not obvious what it stands for, for example in methods that return me for method chaining, or in methods that create something but don’t return the created entity but only its key or so.