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in reply to import doesn't work at runtime?

You're missing some parenthesis and some strictures to explain the problem. Without parens:

perl -e 'use strict; use warnings; require MyModule; MyModule->import( +qw(frobnicate munge)); frobnicate; munge; ' Bareword "frobnicate" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e lin +e 1. Bareword "munge" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1. Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
With:
perl -e 'use strict; use warnings; require MyModule; MyModule->import( +qw(frobnicate munge)); frobnicate(); munge(); ' frobnicated! munged!
With parens, Perl knows at compile time that frobnicate()/munge() are subroutines and that Perl can deal with them later at runtime. So, the following also works, but changes the semantics a bit (first argument is "MyModule") - Perl still detects the subroutine invocation (w/o parens):
perl -e 'use strict; use warnings; require MyModule; MyModule->import( +qw(frobnicate munge)); MyModule->frobnicate; MyModule->munge; ' frobnicated! munged!