Weird, works for me:

>perl -e "eval { require Boo }; print """[$@]""" if $@;"
[Can't locate Boo.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ...) at -e line 1.
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Remember that require doesn't call import like use does, so you need to call it explicitly:

use Module;
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require Module;
Module->import() if Module->can('import');


use Module qw(a b);
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require Module;
Module->import(qw(a b)) if Module->can('import');


use Module ();
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require Module;
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