Not 100% sure I'm not misunderstanding you, but... 

[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ cat tst
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

sub foo { return 3 }

*import = \&foo;
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ perl -c tst
Name "main::import" used only once: possible typo at tst line 8.
tst syntax OK
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ cat tst2
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

sub foo { return 3 }

{
  no warnings;
  *import = \&foo;
}
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ perl -c tst2
tst2 syntax OK
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ cat tst3
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

sub foo { return 3 }

*blah = \&foo;
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ perl -c tst3
Name "main::blah" used only once: possible typo at tst line 8.
tst syntax OK

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So, in summary, you can suppress the warnings with no warnings, and *import is not special, typeglobs are just exempt from use strict;.

Hope that answers your questions.

bbfu
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In reply to (bbfu) Re: 'used once' during perl -c by bbfu
in thread 'used once' during perl -c by John M. Dlugosz

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