diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
index 99897ff846..d5db8bc6e9 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
@@ -459,11 +459,7 @@ class MercurialDownloadStrategy < AbstractDownloadStrategy
   def cached_location; @clone; end
 
   def hgpath
-    @path ||= if which "hg"
-      'hg'
-    else
-      "#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/bin/hg"
-    end
+    @path ||= (which "hg" || "#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/bin/hg")
   end
 
   def fetch