How are operators called which affect the first operand instead of 'return' something?

I'm talking about operators which not return a value but modify (overwrite) the first operand.

Example in pseudo-code:

      add  :=  return op1 + op2
increment  :=  op1 = op1 + op2

Given this mapping schema:

add -> increment
subtr开发者_Python百科act -> decrement

What could possibly be the names for other operators?

multiply, divide, power, ... (what else?)

I was thinking about add->selfAdd, multiply->selfMultiply, but these names are somehow stupid.

NOTE: What's all this for? It's for an experimental programming language. Because of certain circumstances there may be only words, no operator signs, so I can't use ++ for increment or *= for selfMultiply.

I've usually heard *= and += referred to as "multiply-assign" and "add-assign".

I believe you are describing the differences between unary and binary operators/operations.

This document about Java operators names them compound assignment operators:

You can also combine the arithmetic operators with the simple assignment operator to create compound assignments. For example, x+=1; and x=x+1; both increment the value of x by 1.