Just an opinion, but I would use the simplist, most straight-forward code I could for Production Code. The more understandable the code, the easier it is to maintain.

Production Code should have two major attributes:

1. It works.

2. It is easy to maintain.

Nobody cares about elegance at three in the morning when trying to fix someone's else's code. Clarity is always good. Make sure your documentation has lots of it.

xenchu

update: I really need to learn to type.