[Newbies] Instance Creation Howto

[hypolit]

Hello,

I am new to Smalltalk and Squeak in general. After having started to read
"Inside Smalltalk" and "Smalltalk by Example" i came along two similar
examples, which sound quite reasonable but don't seem to work in Squeak.
I want to create an instance of my own class "ComplexClass".

It is defined like this:
Object subclass: #ComplexClass
    instanceVariableNames: 'firstVar secondVar'
    classVariableNames: ''
    poolDictionaries: ''
    category: 'TestClass'


I can create instances with
aComplex := ComplexClass new.
normally.

But what if i wanted to call another method instead of "new" to create an
instance?
Take, for example, my method "initializer":

initializer
    | aVariable |
    aVariable := ComplexClass new.
    aVariable firstVariable: 22.
    aVariable secondVariable: 23.
    ^aVariable


In both books there are methods quite similar to my "initializer" method.
But if execute:

aComplex2 := ComplexClass initializer.

I get an error message, something like "Undefined Object does not understand
#initializer".
Do i have to write:

aComplex2 := ComplexClass new.
aComplex2 := aComplex2 initalizer.

That would work but it is quite ugly.
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