OCaml 4.02 introduced the 'bytes' type, a mutable string intended to
replace the existing 'string' type for those cases where the byte
array can be mutated. In future the 'string' type will become
immutable. This is not the default now, but it can be forced using
the '-safe-string' compile option.
I tested this on Fedora 24 (OCaml 4.02) & RHEL 7 (OCaml 4.01).
Rich.