GNU sed Bug (Single Quotes in Comments Cause Errors)

[Jonathan Levi MD]

Sir/Madam:

Recently, a shell script of mine terminated with an apparently 
erroneous error message. The following short script, followed by 
terminal output, illustrates the problem:

----------Don't include this line!------------------------------
#!/sw/bin/bash

# littleBuggy.sh
#
#
# Created by Jonathan Levi, M.D. on 9/4/05.
# Copyright 2005 __MyCompanyName__. All rights reserved.

echo some text | sed '${
        p       # works if you'll delete the single quote!
}'
----------Don't include this line!------------------------------

Terminal output:

drj2:jonathan jonathan$ littleBuggy.sh
sed: -e expression #1, char 0: unmatched `{'
/Users/jonathan/bin/littleBuggy.sh: line 11: unexpected EOF while 
looking for matching `''
/Users/jonathan/bin/littleBuggy.sh: line 12: syntax error: unexpected 
end of file

GNU sed version 4.1.4; shell is

GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin7.5.0)

Computer: Macintosh PowerBook G4 17" (PowerPc G44, 1.5 GHz)
Mac OS X: Version 10.3.9, build  7W98

Thank you for your attention to this,

Jonathan Levi, M.D.