I'm confused by a bit of sample code in the Language Guide (http://www.lassosoft.com/Language-Guide-Defining-Types) under the heading 'Defining Types', subheading 'Getters and Setters', specifically the 'setter' example:

define person => type {

// the firstName data member
data firstName

snip...

// the firstName setter
public firstName=(value) => {
.'firstName' = #value
return .'firstName'

}
}

The question is, what does the word 'value' represent? I'm assuming it is used thusly:

public status = string('foo') => {
.'status' = #status
return .'status'}

But the error stack shows:

Failure while running startup script: /var/lasso/instances/test//LassoStartup/test.lasso -1 Compiler error. /var/lasso/instances/test//LassoStartup/test.lasso: The local variable "status" has not been defined line: 42, col: 14

Also, is there something special that I need to do with this:

public firstname = field('firstname') => {
.'firstname' = #firstname
return .'firstname'}

....in order to use it within a member method containing an inline that accesses a database table [hence the field('firstname')]? I'm able to retrieve results from the member method, but not via $user->firstname when local('user' = person) is defined on the target page.


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