How to turn this C++ into D?

[Patrick Jeeves via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 at 18:56:08 UTC, luminousone wrote:
> unless delete is explicitly called, I don't believe the 
> destructor would ever be called, it would still have a 
> reference in the static foo_list object that would stop it from 
> being collected by the gc.

This is exactly why I asked about it, and even if delete is 
explicitly called-- which i believe is deprecated, wouldn't the 
runtime fill the space with the default construtor until the GC 
decides to remove it? meaning it would be immediatly added back 
into the list?