CS2212-2012-G2/SurvivorPool — comment on commit f7a3d6031a14cb795e22d523b281838a032cbbf3
File: src/admin/EditPlayerFieldsPanel.java line 28
By slyos:

It's because you are inferring a type to it. You can have a generic type, but you lose a lot of String methods, and you don't have to cast it.
*Note: Not exactly sure, but I had to do that for an iterator.