extends Model == extends Eloquent?

Question

All the examples of Eloquent Models in Laravel 4 extends Eloquent, but when you generate a Model in Laravel 5 it says extends Model, are they the same?

Laravel 4

<?php

class User extends Eloquent {

    //Code

}

Laravel 5

<?php

class User extends Model {

    //Code

}

The Laravel 5 docs says:

Defining An Eloquent Model

class User extends Model {}

Answer 1

Yes they are the same. Laravel 4 uses Class Aliasing to map Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model to Eloquent. You can see in the app/config/app.php file:

'Eloquent'          => 'Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model',

Laravel 5 uses namespacing instead. So at the top of the model class you will see this line:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

Answer 2

used...

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

to extend the model