'intent retaining' "stroke to path"

SVG brings a great opportunity for letting coders and
clickers cooperate. Inkscape can still improve
significantly on that aspect.

One little example:

When you call a "stroke to path" on a lonely circular
path with a stroke-width!=0 you don't get 2 circular
paths and 2 straight lines, but you get loads of Cubic
Beziers.
In numbers and path characters:
12x"C"+1x"L"+1"Z" instead of 2x"A"+1x"L"+1x"Z"

I believe this is wrong for several related reasons:
- it's throwing away intent, semantics
- it's less readable for a coder
- it's longer

I love Inkscape, but 'fall back' to handcoding more
than i'd like, often because of the not so clean SVG
output.

stelt
http://svg.startpagina.nl