asterisk users - Apr 2008 - Asterisk V1.6.0 SVN debug WARNING(6830) a bug or deliberate?

Hi lists,

  Does anyone know if the following error message (from a debug screen) was 
a
deliberate change from the behavior in asterisk V1.4.18 or just an 
overlooked
parsing error in progressing to V1.6.0? Since, in this case, the string
("Hi
there")
is quoted, it doesn't seem as though the parser should take notice about 
about the
interior of a 'word'. However, if it is deliberate, then so be it. (a
yellow
NOTICE
would be more soothing than a red WARNING)  :-)

Gerald Harshany
WARNING(6830): pbx.c:7557 pbx_builtin_setvar: Please avoid unnecessary 
spaces on variables as it may lead to unexpected results 
('DB(Knowselgreat/"Hi there")' set to ' "myfile"
').

Using current Asterisk version: SVN-branch-1.6.0-r114304 (on Ubuntu) and 
Zaptel current SVN 1.4