POD isn't executable code, so the answer is no.

However, that doesn't mean you can't have a version number in your POD. I often use CVS to do my version control, and with CVS, you can tell it to stick in a version number. Something as simple as the following will do:

    =head1 VERSION

      $Revision: $
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When checking in, CVS will stick the current version number inside the tag.

To get the version number inside a variable, I use something like:

    our ($VERSION) = q $Revision: $ =~ /[\d.]+/g;
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