Possible bug in std.path?

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 19:40:16 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> The fact that some standard Windows utilities do not obey this 
> convention is more likely a historical artifact from DOS days.

Escaping makes sense for free text arguments, but not for path 
arguments, hence funny heuristics. That said one can use forward 
slashes as folder separators on windows.