For instance, take this piece of code:
var person = new Person();
or for you Pythonistas:
person = Person()
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Jason - I'm not sure who has told you that this is bad. A number of authors use this as a standard way of expressing an Instance (lower case) of a Class (capitalized).
I use this quite often as I find that the lower-cased variable actually communicates to me not only that this is an instance but also the name of the class.
Unless someone has a solid argument to the contrary, I'll certainly continue doing this.