Ich bevorzuge glob(), weil es keine Verwechslungsgefahr mit dem Diamantoperator zum Einlesen aus einem Filehandle gibt.

Siehe auch perldoc perlop:
[quote=perldoc perlop,I/O Operators]If what's within the angle brackets is neither a filehandle nor a simple scalar variable containing a filehandle name, typeglob, or typeglob reference, it is interpreted as a filename pattern to be globbed, and either a list of filenames or the next filename in the list is returned, depending on context.
      This distinction is determined on syntactic grounds alone.  That means "<$x>" is always a readline() from an indirect handle, but "<$hash{key}>" is always a glob(). That's because $x is a simple scalar variable, but $hash{key} is not--it's a hash element.

One level of double-quote interpretation is done first, but you can't say "<$foo>" because that's an indirect filehandle as explained in the previous paragraph.  (In older versions of Perl, programmers would insert curly brackets to force interpretation as a filename glob: "<${foo}>".  These days, it's considered cleaner to call the internal function directly as "glob($foo)", which is probably the right way to have done it in the first place.)
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