The PHP manual says

Like static members, constant values can not be accessed from an instance of the object.

which explains why you can't do this

$this->inst = new Classname();
echo $this->inst::someconstant;

but then why does this work?

$this->inst = new Classname();
$inst = $this->inst;
echo $inst::someconstant;
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