diff --git a/spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/TypedValue.java b/spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/TypedValue.java
index ccd8b57235..b97020a259 100644
--- a/spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/TypedValue.java
+++ b/spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/TypedValue.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2023 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2024 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ import org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils;
 
 /**
  * Encapsulates an object and a {@link TypeDescriptor} that describes it.
- * The type descriptor can contain generic declarations that would not
+ *
+ * <p>The type descriptor can contain generic declarations that would not
  * be accessible through a simple {@code getClass()} call on the object.
  *
  * @author Andy Clement
diff --git a/spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/ast/Selection.java b/spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/ast/Selection.java
index 72f9aa6f0e..374a9da4d9 100644
--- a/spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/ast/Selection.java
+++ b/spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/ast/Selection.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2022 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2024 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ import org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils;
 
 /**
  * Represents selection over a map or collection.
- * For example: {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}.?{#isEven(#this) == 'y'} returns [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
+ *
+ * <p>For example, <code>{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}.?{#isEven(#this)}</code> evaluates
+ * to {@code [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]}.
  *
  * <p>Basically a subset of the input data is returned based on the
  * evaluation of the expression supplied as selection criteria.
@@ -100,11 +102,10 @@ public class Selection extends SpelNodeImpl {
 					Object val = selectionCriteria.getValueInternal(state).getValue();
 					if (val instanceof Boolean b) {
 						if (b) {
+							result.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
 							if (this.variant == FIRST) {
-								result.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
 								return new ValueRef.TypedValueHolderValueRef(new TypedValue(result), this);
 							}
-							result.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
 							lastKey = entry.getKey();
 						}
 					}
@@ -120,22 +121,22 @@ public class Selection extends SpelNodeImpl {
 			}
 
 			if ((this.variant == FIRST || this.variant == LAST) && result.isEmpty()) {
-				return new ValueRef.TypedValueHolderValueRef(new TypedValue(null), this);
+				return new ValueRef.TypedValueHolderValueRef(TypedValue.NULL, this);
 			}
 
 			if (this.variant == LAST) {
 				Map<Object, Object> resultMap = new HashMap<>();
 				Object lastValue = result.get(lastKey);
-				resultMap.put(lastKey,lastValue);
-				return new ValueRef.TypedValueHolderValueRef(new TypedValue(resultMap),this);
+				resultMap.put(lastKey, lastValue);
+				return new ValueRef.TypedValueHolderValueRef(new TypedValue(resultMap), this);
 			}
 
-			return new ValueRef.TypedValueHolderValueRef(new TypedValue(result),this);
+			return new ValueRef.TypedValueHolderValueRef(new TypedValue(result), this);
 		}
 
 		if (operand instanceof Iterable || ObjectUtils.isArray(operand)) {
-			Iterable<?> data = (operand instanceof Iterable<?> iterable ?
-					iterable : Arrays.asList(ObjectUtils.toObjectArray(operand)));
+			Iterable<?> data = (operand instanceof Iterable<?> iterable ? iterable :
+					Arrays.asList(ObjectUtils.toObjectArray(operand)));
 
 			List<Object> result = new ArrayList<>();
 			int index = 0;