What reasons are there to prefer glob over readdir (or vice-versa) in Perl?

Question

This question is a spin-off from this one. Some history: when I first learned Perl, I pretty much always used glob rather than opendir + read

Answer 1

For small, simple things, I prefer glob. Just the other day, I used it and a twenty line perl script to retag a large portion of my music library. glob, however, has a pretty strange name. Glob? It's not intuitive at all, as far as a name goes.

My biggest hangup with readdir is that it treats a directory in a way that's somewhat odd to most people. Usually, programmers don't think of a directory as a stream, they think of it as a resource, or list, which glob provides. The name is better, the functionality is better, but the interface still leaves something to be desired.