Remove non-working/obsolete tests?

[JJ]

While looking at #532 I've realized this it's 8 years old, and that the last commit, itself, says it does not work in nom.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to simply remove tests that are not working? Or fix them? Isn't this spec supposed to be the spec?

[JJ]

Effectively, that file (along with packages.t is not listed in spectest.data in Rakudo). But that's confusing, and it also means that variable traits are not tested. Is that correct?

[JJ]

Ping?
Here's my version of that test, before I obliterate it

use v6;
use Test;

plan 5;

# L<S14/Traits/>

my @var_names;
multi trait_mod:<is>(Variable $a, :$noted!) {
    push @var_names, $a.name;
}

role doc { has $.doc is rw }
# multi trait_mod:<is>($a, $arg, :$doc!) {
#     $a.container.VAR does doc.new(doc => $arg);
# }

multi trait_mod:<is>(Variable $a, :$docced!) {
    $a does doc.new(doc => $docced);
}


my $a is noted;
my %b is noted;
my @c is noted;

@var_names .= sort;
is +@var_names, 3, 'have correct number of names noted from trait applied by name';
is @var_names, ['$a','%b','@c'], 'trait recorded correct information';


my $dog is docced('barks');
my @birds is docced('tweet');
my %cows is docced('moooo');

say $dog.^name;
is $dog.VAR.doc, 'barks', 'trait applied to scalar variable correctly';
is @birds.doc,   'tweet', 'trait applied to array variable correctly';
is %cows.doc,    'moooo', 'trait applied to hash variable correctly';

# vim: ft=perl6

[Altai-man]

1)What can "obsolete" mean here? I mean, what's the criteria?
2)If we have tests which are broken, they have to be fixed, not removed. If we have tests which test NYI, we have to implement, not remove tests

[JJ]

I mainly mean tests that are not part of the spec, and thus they are not run. This is one of them.