Don't mourn the removal of --, ++ and the C-style for loop from Swift. Read the blog post: http://www.chibicode.org/?p=24

CForLoopExample.swift

let baseString = "/Documents/"
let words = ["Alpha", "Beta", "Gamma", "Delta"]
var paths : [String] = []

for (var i = 0; i < words.count; ++i) {
    let word = words[i]
    paths.append("\(baseString)\(word)")
}
print(paths)

EnumerateExample.swift

for index, word in words.enumerate() {
    funcThatRequiresWordAndIndex(word, index: index)
}

IncrementDecrementExample.swift

let n = 4
print(--n) // Prints '3', value of n is now 3.
print(++n) // Prints '4', value of n is now 4.
print(n--) // Prints '4', value of n is now 3. Confusing!
print(n++) // Prints '3', value of n is now 4. Also confusing!

IterateRangeExample.swift

for i in 0..<words.count {
    funcThatRequiresWordAndIndex(words[i], index: i)
}

MapExample.swift

let baseString = "/Documents/"
let words = ["Alpha", "Beta", "Gamma", "Delta"]

let paths = words.map({"\(baseString)\($0)"})
print(paths)

Line 1 of IncrementDecrementExample.swift should be var if you're mutating it later in the example.