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Imagine having a TheSaurus for programming language Keywords and Concepts that responds to queryes with synonyms and antonyms that are strictly other language keywords or operands. Asking for ">=" the user will be presented with "<=" as antonym and ">" as a synonym (it's an example). Which Antonym will you expect to find searching for the term "for each"?
If this is OT let me know. I'm not so at pace with the community since years.
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A keyword's synonym is a word or phrase that means something similar to your keyword. For example, if you're writing a post about “dog food,” keyword synonyms might be “food for dogs,” “food for old dogs,” “pet food,” or “puppy food.”
A thesaurus is a software tool included with some word processors that provides synonyms for selected words on command. Users using Microsoft Word can open a thesaurus by highlighting the word they want to look up and pressing the shortcut key Shift + F7 .
The antonym for foreach would be fornone, but since that wouldn't be very useful you wouldn't find it in any programming language, unless you count things like Python's pass or a NOOP.
However the while-loop can be a synonym for foreach in some contexts and the while loop does have a direct antonym with the until-loop (available in Ruby, Bash and Lisp). Similarly there exist an antonym for the if statement with the unless statement.
I am not aware of any reasonably complete Programmer Thesaurus that could answer such and similar questions, however there are a few projects on Github that might act as a starting point:
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"For each" wouldn't have an antonym. Your question reminds me of this other riddle: "What is the opposite of a circle?"
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