> If you care about making your code smaller (which reduces the occurrence of bugs), making it more readable, etc., and performance isn't much of an issue, then

> If you care about making your code smaller (which reduces the occurrence of bugs), making it more readable, etc., and performance isn't much of an issue, then it probably is a win. Maintainability over the life of the code is more important than optimizing its present state to the most elegant solution. The code is going to grow, requirements will change, cases will be added not present in the current system.