What do Groovy assertions look like with parentheses?

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assert a != null, 'First parameter must not be null'

What would this look like if I wanted to include the parentheses? I presume that this is the closest equivalent to Perl's die() function (print error message and exit in one statement)?

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The answer is:

assert(a != null), "First parameter must not be null"