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Add a note regarding :language-in default

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Review the referenced clojurescript-site commit and the ClojureScript compiler commit to understand the existing :language-in default and its rationale. Add a documentation note stating that the compiler emits :ecmascript3 while the default is specified as :ecmascript5, including the reason described by the linked history.

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We default to :ecmascript5 https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript-site/commit/405db118041313a70757e26531fbaef0527b98a9

This ticket asks that we add a note indicating that the compiler really emits :ecmascript3, but specifies this for a reason (rooted in https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/commit/72e2ab6e63b3341aa26abcbdd72dc291cbd0c462).

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