https://codeclimate.com/github/HaxeFlixel/flixel/pull/2772

Obviously, the order cannot be any other way. Furthermore, my checkstyle.json doesn't list final in the list of modifiers so I expect its order to be ignored.
https://github.com/HaxeCheckstyle/haxe-checkstyle/blob/dev/src/checkstyle/checks/modifier/ModifierOrderCheck.hx
Zeta mentioned that checkstyle doesn't differentiate between vars and functions when checking modifiers.