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

Yes, it is purely sugar. The following code

var MyList = new List() { 10 , 20 , 30 , 40, 50} ;  
foreach(int i in MyList) 
{
    Console.WriteLine(i);
}

is translated in compiler as:

Ienumrator rator = MyList.GetEnumrator();

try
{
   while(rator.MoveNext())
   {
       int i = rator.Current; 
       Console.WriteLine(i); 
   }
}
finally
{
    rator.Dispose()
}