Actually, I've thought if we could use a semicolon to seperate patch from arguments:

pd -open "mypatch1.pd; 1 2 3" -open "mypatch2; foo bar"

Unfortunately, semicolons are not really reserved characters for filenames, neither on Windows, nor on Linux/macOS, but their use is certainly discouraged.

On the other hand, colons are forbidden characters on Windows and macOS, but not on Linux. This means they are not 100% safe, but maybe better than semicolons. On Pd we don't need to delimit every argument (because arguments are already delimited by spaces), so a single colon between patch name and arguments would be sufficient:

pd -open "mypatch1.pd: 1 2 3" -open "mypatch2: foo bar"

Personally, I like this more than using "stateful" command options like "-args".

Christof

ChucK uses an interesting syntax to pass arguments to programs that we could consider borrowing:

> chuck myprog.ck:23:anotherArg myprog2.ck:42

that in our case would be:

> pd mypatch.pd:23:anotherArg mypatch2.pd:42

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