Lexicals can't be globbed (whatever that means ;) because they're lexical, not global (they don't live in the symbol table):
my $foo = sub {'i am $foo '};
*foo = sub{'i am *foo '};
print $foo->(), $foo,$/;
print foo(), \&foo,$/;
__END__
i am $foo CODE(0x1ab2860)
i am *foo CODE(0x1ab28e4)
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