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

On a similar note, File::Slurp has a function called read_dir.

Since I use File::Slurp's other functions a lot in my scripts, read_dir has also become a habit.

It also has following options: err_mode, prefix, and keep_dot_dot.