Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Do not run perlcritic in brutal mode. What's the prize?

Jokes aside:

If you run perlcritic with --verbose 10, it will give you some explanation: 
Code is not tidy at line 1, column 1.
  CodeLayout::RequireTidyCode (Severity: 1)
    Conway does make specific recommendations for whitespace and
    curly-braces in your code, but the most important thing is to adop
+t a
    consistent layout, regardless of the specifics. And the easiest wa
+y to
    do that is to use Perl::Tidy. This policy will complain if you're 
+code
    hasn't been run through Perl::Tidy.

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If you run perltidy on the code, you will get two more spaces after $VERSION and the complaint will disappear. Go figure.

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In reply to Re: Perl Critic and a formatting question. by choroba
in thread Perl Critic and a formatting question. by Anonymous Monk

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