Well you might say that:

BEGIN
{
   eval
   {
      require strict;
   };
   strict->import() unless $@;
}
                                                                      
+          
$foo = 1;
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Gives rise to:

Global symbol "$foo" requires explicit package name at hdhd line 10.
Execution of hdhd aborted due to compilation errors.
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So no it does work. Update: but of course the string eval is different.

/J\