[racket] eval, namespaces, and the REPL

Why is it that

(eval '(+ 1 2))

works fine in the REPL, but blow up in a source file? Yes, I've grokked that
there are 2 different namespaces, but why should it be so? And how do I
express "use the namespace of the file you're in"?

Thanks

Pat
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