I understood that. I was just offering clarification (hence starting with "Note"). Thanks for further clarifying that you support my proposal.

I'm not sure why xdg decided to bring up modifying the behavior of system($list) but it seems like a distraction to me. I also think it would be a bad idea.

I also wanted to note that, though this particular proposal is an "attempt to 'compensate' for Win32's non-*nix nature and behaviour", that it doesn't present, IMO, the problem you noted for other such attempts.