Gradle. How to specify shared configuration for a list of subprojects?

Question

There are subprojects and allprojects properties, but how can I just literally list the known subset of projects? I try the following approach:

[project(':child1'), project(':child2')] {
    ...
}

which is inspired by the output of println allprojects:

[project ':stripper', project ':webui', project ':wikidigest']

but it doesn't work. Log output:

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'projects'.
> No signature of method: java.util.ArrayList.call() is applicable for argument types: (build_1ngb77rivv12hrhe33snq4jat0$_run_closure4) values: [build_1ngb77rivv12hrhe33snq4jat0$_run_closure4@38a3f968]
  Possible solutions: tail(), wait(), last(), any(), max(), wait(long)

Answer 1

The solution was to wrap list by call to configure():

configure([project(':child1'), project(':child2')]) {
    ...
}