Added Kohana::config() for loading Kohana_Config instances, and fixed Kohana_Config::load() to properly handle the reverse-ordered paths (can't use += append as it will merge in the wrong order

system/classes/kohana.php

@@ -380,6 +380,17 @@ final class Kohana {
 		return include $file;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Creates a new configuration object for the requested group.
+	 * 
+	 * @param   string   group name
+	 * @param   boolean  enable caching
+	 */
+	public function config($group, $cache = TRUE)
+	{
+		return new Kohana_Config($group, $cache);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Provides simple file-based caching for strings and arrays:
 	 *

system/classes/kohana/config.php

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ class Kohana_Config_Core extends ArrayObject {
 
 		foreach ($files as $file)
 		{
-			// Append each file to the configuration array
-			$config += require $file;
+			// Merge each file to the configuration array
+			$config = array_merge($config, require $file);
 		}
 
 		return $config;