Why is foreach loop Read-Only in C#

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That is because foreach is meant to iterate over a container, making sure each item is visited exactly once, without changing the container, to avoid nasty side effects.

See: foreach in MSDN

If you meant why would changes to an element like an integer not affect a container of integers, well this is because the variable of iteration in this case would be a value type and is copied, e.g.:

// Warning: Does not compile
foreach (int i in ints)
{
  ++i; // Would not change the int in ints
}

Even if the variable of iteration was a reference type, whose operations returned a new object, you wouldn’t be changing the original collection, you would just be reassigning to this variable most of the time:

// Warning: Does not compile
foreach (MyClass ob in objs)
{
  ob=ob+ob; // Reassigning to local ob, not changing the one from the original 
            // collection of objs
}

The following example has the potential to actually modify the object in the original collection by calling a mutating method:

// Warning: Does not compile
foreach (MyClass ob in objs)
{
  ob.ChangeMe(); // This could modify the object in the original collection
}

To avoid confusion with regard to value vs reference types and the scenarios mentioned above (along with some reasons related to optimization), MS chose to make the variable of iteration readonly.

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