If you look at the Laravel's configuration, you'll see an alias has been setup for the symbol Response
'aliases' => array(
'Response' => 'Illuminate\Support\Facades\Response',
The namespace on the actual class, and Laravel's general pattern of using aliases for global access to laravel facade objects make this seems like Response is a facade. However, if you look at the actual definition of the Illuminate\Support\Facades\Response class
#File: vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Facades/Response.php
namespace Illuminate\Support\Facades;
//...
class Response {
We can see, again, that the class exists in the Illuminate\Support\Facades namespace, but it does not extend the Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade class, nor does is implement a getFacadeAccessor method which means, confusingly, it's not really a facade.
Does anyone know why this is? i.e. is there a compelling framework reason why this class in the Facade namespace isn't implemented as an actual Laravel facade?
