Question regarding Example 6 in the spec

Example 6 in the current editor's working draft is as follows:

# The following is the representation of
#    http://example.org/container1/

# @base <http://example.org/container1/>
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>.
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>.
@prefix ldp: <http://www.w3.org/ns/ldp#>.

<>
   a ldp:Container;
   ldp:membershipSubject <> ;
   ldp:membershipPredicate rdfs:member;
   ldp:membershipObject ldp:MemberSubject;
   dcterms:title "A very simple container";
   rdfs:member <member1>, <member2>, <member3>.

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Currently, the base URI is commented out. In order to use the symbols <>,
which state the triple is relative to the base URI, the base URI should not
be commented out, should it? If I tried to POST or PUT this, it wouldn't
work, would it? So, shouldn't we uncomment the @base statement in this
example?

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Cody Burleson