That does sound like the best way forward for me...enforce strict initially one subroutine at a time then one lexical block at a time until the complete code unit has strictures enforced.
Quick question...
If I have use strict; followed by a require statement in the same block, does the code that is brought in by the require have strict applied to it - my guess is yes as it is in the same lexical block.
I can't test it right now as I am using my mobile and AFAIK there isn't a version of Perl for Android.