It's about maintainability more than anything. I want a different developer to be able to jump in an understand a code base as quickly as possible. In my experi

It's about maintainability more than anything. I want a different developer to be able to jump in an understand a code base as quickly as possible. In my experience, unless there is a lot of duplicated code, it's usually much more cost effective in the long term to repeat yourself a few times (heresy I know).