in reply to How to no goto or gosub

Difficult to answer as there is no clear question.

Both your code examples are not equivalent and I'm pretty sure the second doesn't even do what you think it should be doing: it does NOT jump to "continue here" if the condition $gas_cost < 1 holds.

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