working on the core bootstrap comments.

laravel/bootstrap/core.php

@@ -1,14 +1,8 @@
 <?php namespace Laravel;
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Define the PHP file extensions.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-define('EXT',       '.php');
-define('BLADE_EXT', '.blade.php');
-
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Define the core framework paths.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+ * Define core framework paths and constants.
+ */
 define('APP_PATH',     realpath($application).'/');
 define('BASE_PATH',    realpath(str_replace('laravel', '', $laravel)).'/');
 define('PACKAGE_PATH', realpath($packages).'/');
@@ -18,9 +12,6 @@ define('SYS_PATH',     realpath($laravel).'/');
 
 unset($laravel, $application, $config, $packages, $public, $storage);
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Define various other framework paths.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
 define('CACHE_PATH',      STORAGE_PATH.'cache/');
 define('CONFIG_PATH',     APP_PATH.'config/');
 define('CONTROLLER_PATH', APP_PATH.'controllers/');
@@ -32,54 +23,60 @@ define('SYS_CONFIG_PATH', SYS_PATH.'config/');
 define('SYS_LANG_PATH',   SYS_PATH.'language/');
 define('VIEW_PATH',       APP_PATH.'views/');
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Load the configuration manager and its dependencies.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
+define('EXT',       '.php');
+define('BLADE_EXT', '.blade.php');
+
+/**
+ * Load the classes that can't be resolved through the auto-loader.
+ * Typically, these are classes that are used by the auto-loader
+ * or configuration classes.
+ */
 require SYS_PATH.'facades'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'config'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'loader'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'arr'.EXT;
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Determine the application environment.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+ * Determine the application environment. The environment is typically
+ * set by an environment variable on the server.
+ */
 $environment = (isset($_SERVER['LARAVEL_ENV'])) ? $_SERVER['LARAVEL_ENV'] : null;
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Register the configuration file paths.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-$config = array(SYS_CONFIG_PATH, CONFIG_PATH);
-
-if ( ! is_null($environment)) $config[] = CONFIG_PATH.$environment.'/';
+/**
+ * Register the path to the configuration files.
+ */
+$configs = array(SYS_CONFIG_PATH, CONFIG_PATH);
 
-Config::paths($config);
+if ( ! is_null($environment)) $configs[] = CONFIG_PATH.$environment.'/';
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Set a few core configuration options.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-Config::set('view.path', VIEW_PATH);
+Config::$paths = $configs;
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Bootstrap the IoC container.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+ * Bootstrap the application inversion of control (IoC) container.
+ * The container provides the convenient resolution of objects and
+ * their dependencies, allowing for flexibility and testability
+ * within the framework.
+ */
 require SYS_PATH.'container'.EXT;
 
 $container = new Container(Config::get('container'));
 
 IoC::$container = $container;
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Register the auto-loader on the auto-loader stack.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+ * Register the application auto-loader. The auto-loader is responsible
+ * for the lazy-loading of all of the Laravel core classes, as well as
+ * the developer created libraries and models.
+ */
 spl_autoload_register(array('Laravel\\Loader', 'load'));
 
-Loader::$paths = array(BASE_PATH, APP_PATH.'models/', APP_PATH);
+Loader::$paths = array(BASE_PATH, APP_PATH.'models/', APP_PATH.'libraries/', APP_PATH);
 
 Loader::$aliases = Config::get('aliases');
 
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
-// Define some convenient global functions.
-// --------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+ * Define a few convenient global functions.
+ */
 function e($value)
 {
 	return HTML::entities($value);

laravel/config.php

@@ -16,18 +16,7 @@ class Config {
 	 *
 	 * @var array
 	 */
-	protected static $paths = array();
-
-	/**
-	 * Set the paths in which the configuration files are located.
-	 *
-	 * @param  array  $paths
-	 * @return void
-	 */
-	public static function paths($paths)
-	{
-		static::$paths = $paths;
-	}
+	public static $paths = array();
 
 	/**
 	 * Determine if a configuration item or file exists.