Zend 2 const class members private?

I have just started experimenting with the Zend 2 engine, and totally love the new OO features. I'm not sure whether this has been discussed or not (I couldn't find it in the archives, anyway), but I ran into a few things: Constant class members seem to be private by default. I cannot access them by doing $instance->CONSTNAME Is this expected behaviour? I'd expect constants to be public by default, just like regular variables, unless specified otherwise (when I try doing: private const FOO = "bar"; I get a parse error). Same for private static. Is this all going to change? It seems a bit illogical now. Thanks Leendert