actually, <$self->{FH}> is a glob. btrott is right in that only a simple scalar reference can be used inside angle brackets to refer to a filehandle. anything else that's more complicated is instead a glob. these will do the same thing:

$h{foo} = '*.c';
print <$h{foo}>
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and

print glob $h{foo};
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and also

print <*.c>;
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