Changing representation of base case to help understand form of recursion #117
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This is an opinionated suggestion, feel free to not merge.
I think the fact that
height == 0
is the base case for the function is implicit, and maps slightly separately to the way the text talks about the base case.By making a return explicit when height == 0, it helps to visualise how the call stack is being used.