Proper error when it can't find or parse the dotenv file

[maxp-edcast]

In the source code we have

// It's important to note that it WILL NOT OVERRIDE an env variable that already exists - consider the .env file to set dev vars or sensible defaults
func Load(filenames ...string) (err error) {
	filenames = filenamesOrDefault(filenames)

	for _, filename := range filenames {
		err = loadFile(filename, false)
		if err != nil {
			return // return early on a spazout
		}
	}
	return
}

the return // return early on a spazout behavior is questionable, in my opinion. I think it should show a normal error somehow, since it makes things easier to debug.

In my case it turned out to be an error with env file being parsed, since I had an accidental newline in one of the variables. However I couldn't figure this out without going into the dotenv source code and adding some logger statements.

[joho]

Were you checking the returned err from the function? I wrote that a long time ago and it's in the now very non-idiomatic named/naked return so the error should be available.