use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

say "This is perl $^V";

package Input {
    sub awesome {
        say "yay, this works";
    }
}

# this works
'Input'->awesome;

# the "open" is parsed, but not actually executed
eval <<'END';
    sub red_herring {
        open Input, "<&", \*STDIN or die $!;
    }
END
say "eval failed: $@" if $@;

# this will die
eval {
    'Input'->awesome;
};
say "Caught: $@" if $@;

##</code><code>##

This is perl v5.16.2
yay, this works
Caught: Can't locate object method "awesome" via package "IO::File" at prog.pl line 27.