New Issue: WRITE-NEWLINE

[Kent M Pitman <KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>]

The functionality you're requesting is not a duplication of what
PRINT does. Print prints a newline before AND a space after. I don't
think anyone's going to buy doing (WRITE frob :NEWLINE-BEFORE-AND-SPACE-AFTER T)
nor even (WRITE frob :NEWLINE-FIRST T :SPACE-AFTER T).

In practice, most programmers don't even use WRITE (probably for fear
that the keyword argument deciphering is going to be too inefficient)
and I suspect that the designers would be more likely to consider a
request to flush WRITE than to extend it. If you want a general purpose
I/O operator, FORMAT is probably a better candidate.

Anyway, regarding your test case:
 (dotimes (index 4)
   (write index :newline))
 0
 1
 2
 3
 NIL
I assume you meant :NEWLINE T, since keywords must have accompanying values.
I don't think it's unreasonable for us to ask you to do the following, which
is available now:
 (dotimes (index 4)
   (write #\Newline :escape nil)
   (write index))