> Aren't lambda's supposed to be closures, so that they can
> actually access variables defined in lexical scope?

Unlike most other Lisps, lambdas in Jolt are *not* closures.  Jolt's
big insight is that a closureless Lisp makes a great "portable
assembly language" (better than C, which is often used in that role).

> Or is there anything I could do with the _closure
> parameter here (what is it for, anyway...)?

That's something different.  <http://piumarta.com/pepsi/objmodel.pdf>
explains what it is.
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