Is foreach purely “syntactic sugar”?

Question

The compiler compiles a foreach loop into something like a for loop when the foreach is used with an array. And the compiler compile

Answer 1

It's purely syntactic sugar in that you could obtain the same behaviour without it, yes. Many other things are the same... for, while etc... To misquote Archimedes: "Give me if and goto, and I will move the code..."

No, the CLR doesn't have any concept of foreach.