Question

Would it be fair to say that the next line will work as a 6bit OR gate. So, when one of the 6 bits of “columns” is high that the variable “ORgate” will be high:

 assign  ORgate = columns[0] || columns[1] || columns[2] || columns[3] || columns[4] || columns[5];

Answer 1

It will, but there’s a shorter way using “reduction operators”:

 assign ORgate = |columns;