tweaking the core bootstrapper.

laravel/bootstrap/core.php

 <?php namespace Laravel;
 
-define('APP_PATH',     realpath($application).'/');
-define('BASE_PATH',    realpath(str_replace('laravel', '', $laravel)).'/');
-define('PACKAGE_PATH', realpath($packages).'/');
-define('PUBLIC_PATH',  realpath($public).'/');
-define('STORAGE_PATH', realpath($storage).'/');
-define('SYS_PATH',     realpath($laravel).'/');
-
-unset($laravel, $application, $config, $packages, $public, $storage);
+/**
+ * Define a multitude of framework constants. Mainly, we define
+ * various file paths to core locations of the framework, as well
+ * as a couple of file extensions.
+ */
+define('EXT', '.php');
+define('BLADE_EXT', '.blade.php');
 
+define('APP_PATH',        realpath($application).'/');
+define('BASE_PATH',       realpath(str_replace('laravel', '', $laravel)).'/');
+define('PACKAGE_PATH',    realpath($packages).'/');
+define('PUBLIC_PATH',     realpath($public).'/');
+define('STORAGE_PATH',    realpath($storage).'/');
+define('SYS_PATH',        realpath($laravel).'/');
 define('CACHE_PATH',      STORAGE_PATH.'cache/');
 define('CONFIG_PATH',     APP_PATH.'config/');
 define('CONTROLLER_PATH', APP_PATH.'controllers/');
@@ -23,15 +28,13 @@ define('SYS_LANG_PATH',   SYS_PATH.'language/');
 define('SYS_VIEW_PATH',   SYS_PATH.'views/');
 define('VIEW_PATH',       APP_PATH.'views/');
 
-define('EXT',       '.php');
-define('BLADE_EXT', '.blade.php');
+unset($laravel, $application, $config, $packages, $public, $storage);
 
 /**
  * Load the classes that can't be resolved through the auto-loader.
  * These are typically classes that are used by the auto-loader or
  * configuration classes, and therefore cannot be auto-loaded.
  */
-//require SYS_PATH.'facades'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'config'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'loader'.EXT;
 require SYS_PATH.'arr'.EXT;