thanks for your clarification RonW

So using a BEGIN block inside a module to be used it's like to say: as soon as possible or even sooner. 

#TestBegin.pm
use strict;
use warnings;

BEGIN{print "inside BEGIN in the module ",__FILE__,"\n"}
print "in the module ",__FILE__,"\n";

1;

perl  -e "print qq(in the program $0\n);BEGIN{print qq(BEGIN in the pr
+ogram $0\n)}" -MTestBegin

inside BEGIN in the module TestBegin.pm
in the module TestBegin.pm
BEGIN in the program -e
in the program -e

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And the only possibility to fail is: 

perl  -e "print qq(in the program $0\n);BEGIN{print qq(BEGIN in the pr
+ogram\n)}use TestBegin;"
BEGIN in the program
inside BEGIN in the module TestBegin.pm
in the module TestBegin.pm
in the program -e

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