How to call Model (used HMVC)

[eluser]wortell[/eluser]
[quote author="wiredesignz" date="1284685818"]Modular Extensions - HMVC version 5.3 is PHP5 only. So use __construct() instead.[/quote]

so just so I'm clear... why should we use the __construct due to php5 only stuff... is it only because we reference the parent::__construct ? because I too am used to using the more loose way of parent::_class_i_am_extending;

thanks.