Workaround compilation failure on Java 6 by removing some unnecessary
parentheses.  I don't understand why this makes a difference; possibly a
compiler bug?  Compilation error message was "illegal start of expression"
pointing to the '<' in 'Arrays.<Type>asList'
Fix checkstyle failure by replacing curly quote with apostrophe in
JavaDoc.  (checkstyle reports line is too long; seems to count the
curly quote as two characters.)