The only use of the goto is to skip some code. An else would have been preferred.

Hmmm. An else is a typical solution, but it's not something that makes me jump with joy either. It means there's a large block of code that will be indented. And would you have more such cases, the code crawls to the right hand margin.

A continue might solve this:

    if (CONDITION) {{  # Note the *double* opening brace.
        ... some code ...
        next if SOME_CONDITION;
        ... more code ...
        next if OTHER_CONDITION;
        ... even more code ...
        }
        continue {
            ... end stuff ...
        }
    }
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And if you do last instead of next, the continue won't be executed.

Abigail