The following is more for the benefit gayu_justin than for kcott:

Consider what might happen if you wanted to use the $user->id version of $usr after the loop. By using my when you start the loop (as I did) you get a different variable (scoped to the loop) and avoid possible future problems.

This is an oddity, IMHO, of the way for-loop variables behave. The variable is fully localized even though it is lexical. So this code doesn't work as one (I myself, on more than one occasion) would naively expect:

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $max_x = 99;
 ;;
 for $max_x (0 .. 5) {
   print $max_x;
   last if $max_x == 2;
   }
 ;;
 print qq{max_x: $max_x};
"
0
1
2
max_x: 99
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Nor does the loop variable do something really odd like becoming a package variable:

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $x = 'foo';
 print qq{x before loop: '$x'};
 ;;
 for $x (0 .. 2) {
   func();
   our $y;
   print qq{$x, $y};
   }
 ;;
 print qq{x after loop: '$x'};
 sub func {
   our $x;
   our $y;
   $x = 99;
   $y = 42;
   }
"
x before loop: 'foo'
0, 42
1, 42
2, 42
x after loop: 'foo'
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So what's the point of ever using a lexical loop variable in the  for my $x (...) { ... } form? If  $x was a package variable to start with, the loop variable  $x would then be fully lexically scoped. Remove the  my from the following example to see the difference.

>perl -wMstrict -le
"our $max_x = 99;
 ;;
 for my $max_x (0 .. 4) {
   func();
   print $max_x;
   last if $max_x == 2;
   }
 ;;
 print qq{max_x after loop: $max_x};
 ;;
 sub func {
   $max_x = 42;
   }
"
0
1
2
max_x after loop: 42
[download]

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