I don't believe prototyping to be an issue here.

Maybe.  What I meant is probably best expressed with a simple snippet of code, which resembles in essence what I understood you're trying to do (but without the XML and stuff): 

my $code = << 'EOC';
sub mySub() {
    print "args: @_\n";
}
EOC

eval $code;

print qq(\ncalling 'mySub()'\n);
eval 'mySub()';
print "error: $@" if $@;

print qq(\ncalling 'mySub("hello world")'\n);
eval 'mySub("hello world")';
print "error: $@" if $@;

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Running this gives: 

calling 'mySub()'
args: 

calling 'mySub("hello world")'
error: Too many arguments for main::mySub at (eval 3) line 2, near ""h
+ello world")

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As you can see, the second call (with arguments) fails with the prototype in place.  And it fails silently, unless you check $@.

In reply to Re^3: eval sub by almut
in thread eval sub by samip

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