laravel/framework — pull request #175 by barryp (2013-01-26 23:55:56+00:00)
Title: Suggestion for alternative way of naming routes.   

Add a "named" method to Routes, so you can say:

Route::get('/foo', 'xxx@yyy')
->named('my_route');

I think that's a bit more natural that wrapping the controller in an array with an 'as' => 'my_route' entry