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Am I immoral for using a variable name that differs from its type only by case?

For instance, take this piece of code:

var person = new Person();

or for you Pythonistas:

person = Person()

I’m told constantly how bad this is, but have yet to see an example of the immorality of these two lines of code. To me, person is a Person and trying to give it another name is a waste of time. I suppose in…