Ask HN: Does anyone else write emails as code?

For a while I've been becoming more syntactic in my mail writing, using colour coding to ensure keywords stand out, side notes are grey so easier to skip over, actions are highlighted, etc. Over time my mails have been getting more and more code-like. This made me think, it would be great to have a syntax aware mail client, so we could write mails along the lines of the below and have syntax highlighting applied and make use of semantics to hook in additional functionality (e.g. when asking someone to perform a task, have it automatically added to their todo list.

Does anyone else write mails like this / are there any mail clients out there which work along these lines?

  Hi all,

  FYI: The database has now been refreshed.

  new Action ("Bob", "Please can you restart the application / let me know if any issues?");
  new Action ("Jane", "Once the app's online, please confirm whether this has resolved your issue?");

  /*
    Whilst performing the refresh I noticed a couple of the settings were incorrect, so made a note of those values and replaced them with the standard ones.
  */

  Thanks in advance,

  me