Is it possible (or even advisable) to cast the element retrieved from a for each statement in the statement itself? I do know that each element in list will be of type .

I.E.:

List<BaseType> list = DAO.getList();  
for(<SubType> element : list){ 
    // Cannot convert from element type <BaseType> to <SubType>
    ...
}

rather than:

List <BaseType> list = DAO.getList();
for(<BaseType> el : list){
    <SubType> element = (<SubType>)el;
    ...
}