Worse case, imagine a GOTO at the end of each line of code. There was no lexical scoping in BASIC [1] (and all variables were global but that's another topic)

Worse case, imagine a GOTO at the end of each line of code. There was no lexical scoping in BASIC [1] (and all variables were global but that's another topic) so one could literally GOTO any point in the program. [1] I'm talking about the BASIC one found on most 80s home computers at the time.