Good point about colons and semicolons not being 100% safe. Only thing I would say is that they will only be there after ".pd" and this should make it safer (easier to parse!?!?!).
+1 for pd -open "mypatch1.pd: 1 2 3" -open "mypatch2: foo bar"
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