refactoring the autoloader.

laravel/autoloader.php

@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ class Autoloader {
 	 *
 	 * @var array
 	 */
-	protected $libraries = array();
+	protected static $libraries = array();
 
 	/**
 	 * The paths to be searched by the auto-loader.
 	 *
 	 * @var array
 	 */
-	protected $paths = array(BASE_PATH, MODEL_PATH, LIBRARY_PATH);
+	protected static $paths = array(BASE_PATH, MODEL_PATH, LIBRARY_PATH);
 
 	/**
 	 * Load the file corresponding to a given class.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class Autoloader {
 	 * @param  string  $class
 	 * @return void
 	 */
-	public function load($class)
+	public static function load($class)
 	{
 		// Most of the core classes are aliases for convenient access in spite of
 		// the namespace. If an alias is defined for the class, we will load the
@@ -32,11 +32,9 @@ public function load($class)
 			return class_alias(Config::$items['application']['aliases'][$class], $class);
 		}
 
-		if ( ! is_null($path = $this->find($class)))
+		if ( ! is_null($path = static::find($class)))
 		{
 			require $path;
-
-			$this->mappings[$class] = $path;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -46,7 +44,7 @@ public function load($class)
 	 * @param  string  $class
 	 * @return string
 	 */
-	protected function find($class)
+	protected static function find($class)
 	{
 		$file = str_replace('\\', '/', $class);
 
@@ -56,12 +54,12 @@ protected function find($class)
 		// library is PSR-0 compliant, and we will load it following those standards.
 		// This allows us to add many third-party libraries to an application and be
 		// able to auto-load them automatically.
-		if (array_key_exists($namespace, $this->libraries))
+		if (array_key_exists($namespace, static::$libraries))
 		{
 			return LIBRARY_PATH.str_replace('_', '/', $file);
 		}
 
-		foreach ($this->paths as $path)
+		foreach (static::$paths as $path)
 		{
 			if (file_exists($path = $path.strtolower($file).EXT))
 			{
@@ -74,7 +72,7 @@ protected function find($class)
 		// libraries and load the class accordingly.
 		if (is_dir(LIBRARY_PATH.$namespace))
 		{
-			$this->libraries[] = $namespace;
+			static::$libraries[] = $namespace;
 
 			return LIBRARY_PATH.str_replace('_', '/', $file);
 		}

laravel/bootstrap/core.php

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 $loader = new Autoloader;
 
-spl_autoload_register(array($loader, 'load'));
+spl_autoload_register(array('Laravel\\Autoloader', 'load'));
 
 function e($value)
 {