Changing the visibility of constructors?

Hello internals, what's your opinion on whether the constructors must follow one of the principles of the polymorphism - "The visibility in extending classes must be the same or better". Example : class parent { public function __construct() { } } class child extends parent { private function __construct() { } } Currently this code emits a compilation error. If __construct was just a normal then I won't ask, but since __construct() is the new of naming constructors and they are special methods, which are never callen directly but by the engine internally. So, should it be like this? Andrey P.S. An workaround exists : the constructors must not be named __construct() but must follow the old naming convention. In this case the engine does not complain.