laravel/framework — pull request #2040 by greatwitenorth (2013-08-06 01:40:46+00:00)
Title: skip not set when 0 or less

According to MYSQL docs if you specify an offset, a limit must be in place as well. Although this is not a perfect solution, it should help cases where skip and take are being used for paging, and we happen to be on the first page where set() will be given 0 as an offset.