# Programming Clojure, Third Edition: \`assert\` throws Error, not Exception (page 206-7)

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The book and docstring say it “throws an exception” (a Java and Clojure language mechanism), not “throws Exception” (a specific Java class), so I think the statements are correct regardless.

Generally, the docstrings are careful about what they commit to, and there is no commitment here to a specific class.

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