What does 1071: Syntax error indicate and how do I resolve this code?

I'm going through tutorials on dynamic classes. The concept is really exciting and interesting to me.

However this code isn't compiling correctly

dynamic class Person {
var name:String;
}

Person p= new Person();
p.name=”Joe”;
p.age=25;
p.printMe = function () {
trace开发者_C百科 (p.name, p.age);
}
p.printMe(); // Joe 25

I get a 1071 syntax error.

What gives?

Error in syntax; Person p = new Person(); is not valid AS3. It should be var p:Person = new Person();"

EDIT 1: Also, of course if you put your code as-is in the timeline it will not work. The class has to be in a .as file, and the other code must be in the timeline (or in a class function).

EDIT 2: This code works:

//Timeline:
var p:Person = new Person();
p.name="Joe";
p.age=25;
p.printMe = function () {
    trace (p.name, p.age);
}
p.printMe(); // Joe 25`

Where Person.as looks like:

package {
    public dynamic class Person {
        var name:String;
    }
}

I can't test it right now, but it looks like there are two errors in your code snippet. First, the variable declaration and second the string quotes (you used ” instead of "). The following code should work:

var p:Person = new Person();
p.name = "Joe";
p.age = 25;
p.printMe = function() {
    trace (p.name, p.age);
}
p.printMe(); // Joe 25