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LANGUAGE pragma is accepted in module body

As pointed out in #13918, the Haskell Report stipulates that,

The LANGUAGE pragma is a file-header pragma. A file-header pragma must precede the module keyword in a source file.

However, GHC accepts this program,

module Hi where

h = {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} 0
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