It is common in many parts of the world to use a period instead of a
comma as a digit group separator, and vice-versa for the decimal
separator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands_separator#Digit_grouping
I knew it was common in other parts of the world, but for some reason
was thinking that when referring to US Dollars it wouldn't be. Now
that I think about it I can understand why my original thought was
wrong.
I guess it doesn't really matter since the message was actually
hitting another rule (T_LOTS_OF_MONEY) that I somehow missed.
--Dennis