Putting a space in the middle of a variable is just a wee bit different from indenting lines within a function.
Is it?

Yes, absolutely, without qualification, it is fundamentally different. Indenting everything within a block is a strongly-recommended best practice in good coding style, because it greatly enhances clarity. Being told that I shouldn't do that with POD is as far as I'm concerned a good enough reason in itself not to use POD (within blocks -- which is where I wanted to put the information in question), because I would have to adopt an unclear coding style in order to do so. Now I understand why people who use POD stick it all in big huge chunks, rather than interspersing it through the code like comments -- because fundamentally it's not designed to be interspersed the way comments can be. (I had been led to believe otherwise.)

Putting whitespace in variable names (as, $foo {bar}) is something I would do in an obfuscation, to make the code *less* clear. If it alters the meaning, so what? It isn't something I'd normally expect good code to ever do, so at worst it's a very minor gotcha. 

$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/

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