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Because it conflicted with functions people had named?
AFAICT, it was mainly a "religious" argument. There were some very long P5P threads arguing about the merits of the name "err" versus "dor" (I personally like "err"). Larry changed it to "orelse" for Perl 6 last time I looked. For more detail and links see: Re^3: RFC: Defined-Or for before Perl 5.10 and What happened to dor and err in Perl 5.10?.

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