# Is the doc of VegaLote.jl up to date?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-doc-of-vegalote-jl-up-to-date/104125>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, package, syntax\
**Created:** [September 21, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-doc-of-vegalote-jl-up-to-date/104125 "2023-09-21T21:11:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-doc-of-vegalote-jl-up-to-date/104125/1 "2023-09-21T21:11:30Z")

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Hello, I have asked this before but as a late edit in a thread . Therefore I thought I might as well make a dedicated thread. I have compared vegalite and glmakie and settled fot vegalite, I found Makie harder. Anyway, that’s a digression. In the vegalite documentation, brackets " are used ubiquitously, but I also found out example, by pure chance, without brackets. So I tried. And my codes work well without the brackets around words such as color, scheme, etc… Was there a recent change where bracket were ditched? Or is Julia able to understand both syntaxes indifferently? I don’t know how a programming language works under the hood so it might be a very naive question.

I have to say in general I have troubles understanding when to use brackets or not.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-doc-of-vegalote-jl-up-to-date/104125/2 "2023-09-21T21:47:01Z")

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Could you provide code as an example? I’m not sure which brackets you mean.

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**Author:** ![Axze-rgb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/axze-rgb/32/50986_2.png) [@Axze-rgb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Axze-rgb)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-doc-of-vegalote-jl-up-to-date/104125/3 "2023-09-21T21:55:19Z")

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I am very sorry, I meant quotation marks, not brackets. Stupid English mistakes. What I meant:

Example here: [Simple Bar Chart | Vega-Lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/bar.html)

In similar cases I could replace “x”: by x= without troubles.

Is there a difference?

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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-doc-of-vegalote-jl-up-to-date/104125/4 "2023-09-21T22:18:59Z")

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I’m confused if you are asking about JSON or Julia syntax.

The Julia syntax for that graph is here:

[https://www.queryverse.org/VegaLite.jl/stable/examples/examples\_barcharts/](https://www.queryverse.org/VegaLite.jl/stable/examples/examples_barcharts/)

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**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-the-doc-of-vegalote-jl-up-to-date/104125/5 "2023-09-21T22:27:40Z")

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Perfect thanks! I don’t know why I missed thr Julia syntax part of the doc. It all makes sense now