Yes, it can be made to work without the double colon. ;-)

lib/common.pm:

package common;
require common::sense;
*import = sub { $code = common::sense->can('import') and goto $code }
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example.pl:

use common sense;
print $foo;
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Output:

[tai@miranda (pts/0) ~]$ perl -Ilib example.pl
Global symbol "$foo" requires explicit package name at example.pl line
+ 2.
Execution of example.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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