Assume we are defining a macro then copy it via a \let into a second macro with something like
\def\dummymacro{}
\let\othermacro\dummymacro
If we now want to now have tokens representing the invocation of this macro, we should then be able to use
Invocation('\othermacro');
which we would expect to return a single T_CS('\othermacro'). When running this code however, we get T_CS('\dummymacro') instead.
This comes from a more complicated scenario I encountered while updating keyval bindings, but I have gotten it down to this very basic example. This caused an infinite loop, making debugging very hard.