Greetings all,
I'm having a bit of trouble with a piece of code of mine. It works kinda like this:
I have two programmes, Launcher and Code. There are two modules, LaunchMod.pm and CodeMod.pm. Straightforward, right? Good. So:
Launcher loads Code from a text file, and passes it in a single string variable to LaunchMod.pm, which then does a little:
unless(fork) { eval($code) || die("Doh - $@\n"); }

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Inside Code is: 
use strict;
use vars qw($me);
use CodeMod;
$me = "Bob";
&CodeMod::MySub;

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And inside CodeMod::MySub is a line or two that, very simply (for testing purposes) prints out the contents of $main::me. Only problem is - it doesn't.
The above says that $main::me is undefined. If I don't use LaunchMod.pm to fork/eval, and instead put that same fork/eval code inside Launch itself, everything is hunky-dory.
Obviously I'm setting up the namespace wrong, but I'm just not understanding where... Whether it forks inside the main code (Launch) or off in its module, I don't see how that can affect the eval()ed code like this...
Help?

JP,
-- Alexander Widdlemouse undid his bellybutton and his bum dropped off --

In reply to Namespace after forking()+eval()ing providing unexpected results by JPaul

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