diff --git a/language/oop5/decon.xml b/language/oop5/decon.xml
index b8ad55ffa7..3cbb255287 100644
--- a/language/oop5/decon.xml
+++ b/language/oop5/decon.xml
@@ -62,13 +62,15 @@ $obj = new OtherSubClass();
     </programlisting>
    </example>
    <para>
-    For backwards compatibility, if PHP 5 cannot find a 
-    <link linkend="object.construct">__construct()</link> function for a given class, and the
-    class did not inherit one from a parent class, it will
-    search for the old-style constructor function, by the name of the class.
+    For backwards compatibility, if a
+    class did not inherit a <link linkend="object.construct">__construct()</link> from a parent class,
+    either __construct() or the 
+    old-style constructor function with the name of the class will be used as constructor function,
+    whichever comes first.
     Effectively, it means that the only case that would have compatibility
     issues is if the class had a method named 
-    <link linkend="object.construct">__construct()</link> which was used for different semantics.
+    <link linkend="object.construct">__construct()</link> which was used for different semantics,
+    and which came lexically before the old-style constructor.
    </para>
    <para>
     Unlike with other methods, PHP will not generate an