One wrinkle on broquaint's kludge is its interaction with an import subroutine.
'use'ing a module normally goes through: 
BEGIN
import
INIT
However, adding an import subroutine to the above code produces: 
BEGIN
INIT
import
One possible workaround for this would be to move any INIT code to the end of the import subroutine. Yet even this is not a 100% solution as: 
use testpkg ();

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causes the import subroutine - and hence the moved INIT code - not be be executed.

For the module I'm writing, I have a BEGIN block, an import subroutine, and an INIT block. The INIT block consists of just one function call. Therefore, I warn the user that if they want delayed evaluation of my module, they must do so as follow: 

eval {
    require MyModule;
    import MyModule qw/.../;
    MyModule::MyInit();
}

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Remember: There's always one more bug.

In reply to Re^2: INIT blocks and runtime code loading by jdhedden
in thread INIT blocks and runtime code loading by stvn

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