apply ';' MACRO (';' LIST)*

The apply macro takes the name of a macro and invokes this macro with each element of the given list as an argument. It is useful when the arguments to the macro are in a comma separated list.

args = com.example.foo, 3.12, HIGHEST
${apply;repo;${args}}

This will be expanded to:

${repo;com.example.foo;3.12;HIGHEST}

Which will provide the path to the artifact