>  Sounds like another language feature better for POV-Ray 4 rather than
> the current one.
> 
>  In other words, rather hacking tons of tiny features on top of the old
> SDL, it's better to design a new SDL which is so flexible that you can do
> almost anything with it without the need to add core features.

It would be easy enough to fit binary file access into the current SDL
framework.
 
FOPEN_DIRECTIVE:
    #fopen IDENTIFIER "filename" OPEN_TYPE [FILE_MODE]
OPEN_TYPE:
    read | write | append
FILE_MODE
    standard | binary

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