Manually created `Constant` task is not returned with `flow.tasks`

Description

I have manually created a Constant task and added it to a Flow. However, the flow does not return it when I execute flow.tasks. Here is some code to replicate the bug:

from prefect import task, Flow
from prefect.tasks.core.constants import Constant

@task
def do_nothing(arg):
    pass

with Flow("constants") as flow:
    do_nothing(Constant({"x": 1, "y": [9, 10]}, name='asdf'))

flow.tasks

The code above returns: {<Task: do_nothing>}

Expected Behavior

I expected to have {<Task: do_nothing>, <Task: asdf>} returned as shown in this prefect tutorial in the “Auto-generation of Tasks” example

Environment

I am using prefect==0.8.1

[AndrewLim1990]

Thanks for the help! I ended up using the first route you mentioned above. In my mind, perhaps a good route forward is to be able to be identified by name w/ flow.constants.

[AndrewLim1990]

Thank you!