in reply to How do you get around the lexical scoping of use pragmas?

You want the PERL5OPT environment variable. For example: 

# MS-DOS:
set PERL5OPT=-Mstrict -Mwarnings

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Not that I recommend this. If you do it at all, it should probably be in some launcher script, rather than at the system-global level.

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