Except that doesn't actually work. It turns on the strict rules for the rest of the string you're evaluating, but that's it. 
% perl
use strict;
$x = 1; 
print $x,$/;
^D
Global symbol "$x" requires explicit package name at - line 2.
Global symbol "$x" requires explicit package name at - line 3.
Execution of - aborted due to compilation errors.

% perl
eval 'use strict' if 1;
$x = 1;
print $x,$/;
^D
1

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By convention, the all-lowercase modules like strict, warnings, if, and utf8 are pragma declarations. They change the rules of Perl as a language. You should expect that they work through magic, and they produce results which are magical. Typically, they are not just "build up a symbol table and call import()" like all the other modules.

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In reply to Re^2: turn off strict for production code by halley
in thread turn off strict for production code by blahblahblah

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