Necessary is a strong statement, it's obviously not as it's style. I personally think it's better to have Safe Haskell pragmas at the top as they aren't like other pragmas, they don't just turn something on but make a hard statement about the module in question. As such it seems better to me to keep them at the top to retain this distinction from other pragmas. If you feel or others a different style is better, that's fine. There isn't any consistent style with pragmas so I introduced one. If considering my argument above you prefer alphabetical then feel free to revert the patch. It would be nice if we had a consistent style though with pragmas. I don't care strongly what it is, just that it exists. Cheers, David On 21 November 2014 13:30, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

Hello David,

On 2014-11-21 at 22:03:23 +0100, git-4Dsf34iY/NkouOHNgZ69ag@public.gmane.org wrote:

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commit 2a523ebf091478aea39deef28073320bed628434 Author: David Terei Date: Wed Nov 19 18:29:51 2014 -0800

Be consistent with placement of Safe Haskell mode at top of file

Why is that necessary?

Fwiw, I'm afraid that's gonna be hard to retain; it's more obvious/easier to keep all LANGUAGE pragmas in alphabetic order (I've probably done that a couple of times in `base` deliberately myself) than to introduce such an artificial ordering on the language pragmas.

The reason is, you can instruct an editor to select the first paragraph which comprises the block of one-per-line language-pragmas is, and have it sorted it alphabetically. That's just a few keystrokes. But it's rather difficult to teach the editor to use an ordering relation other than the usual alphabetic/lexicographic ordering.

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