[m-rev.] for review: ordering the items in interface files

[Michael Day]

> I've discussed this with Zoltan before and such a change is going to
> be a sizable (if rather dull) undertaking.  At the time I think we agreed
> that it's probably best done after the current parser is replaced (with an
> elk based one).

It would be good to replace the parser, as the current one has a habit of
looping indefinitely (or just taking a very very long time) on moderately
large input files that contain trivial syntax errors like a missing comma
or a missing "else". Even more annoyingly, Mercury does not respond to ^C
in that state, and must be kill -9'd, making it rather frustrating to
track down exactly where the syntax error is.

Cheers,

Michael

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