Problem with Abstract Data Types

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Hey everyone…
I’m new to OOP with Actionscript, and i guess i understand the basics, but the following costed me half the day and i still don’t understand it:

I have two classes, Node.as and Player.as.

I have this public function in my Node class:

public function getName():String {
        return nodeName;
}

Now in the constructor of my Player class, i want to access this function:

public function Player(startNode:Node) {
        trace ("node: " + startNode.getName());
}

The interesting part of my main actionscript:

var q:Node = new Node("q", 150, 225);
var player:Player = new Player(q);

My constructor always traces “node: undefined”.

So did i make a stupid mistake somewhere or is it just not possible to use classes in this way?